Little speedster
Madison Lucas, 3, of Sidney, rides her scooter down a path
running along the side of her home Thursday. Madison is
the daughter of Brandy Lucas and Joey Lucas.

Senate votes to delay P.O. closings
Bill now goes
to House
BY HOPE YEN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Senate offered a lifeline to
the nearly bankrupt U.S.
Postal Service on Wednesday,
voting to give the struggling
agency an $11 billion cash infusion while delaying controversial decisions on closing
post offices and ending Saturday delivery.
By a 62-37 vote, senators approved a measure which had
divided mostly along ruralurban lines. Over the past several weeks, the bill was
modified more than a dozen
times, adding new restrictions
on closings and cuts to service
that rural-state senators said
would hurt their communities
the most.
The issue now goes to the
House, which has yet to consider a separate version of the
bill.
“The Postal Service is an
iconic American institution
that still delivers 500 million
pieces of mail a day and sustains 8 million jobs,” said Sen.
Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., a bill
co-sponsor. “This legislation
will change the USPS so it can
stay alive throughout the 21st
century.”
The mail agency, however,
criticized the measure, saying
it fell far short in stemming financial losses. Postmaster

Fate of Pemberton
post office undecided
PEMBERTON — Area residents are hopeful the U.S.
Senate bill aimed at restricting closings of rural post offices will once again spare Pemberton’s post office.
The local office, one of 120 facilities under review for closure or consolidation in 2011, received a five-month reprieve from the U.S. Postal Service at that time in response
to requests made by Senate leaders.
Contacted Thursday morning, Pemberton Postmaster
Judy Johnson said she had received no word on the local
office’s status. A spokesman at the area Postal Services
Consumer Affairs Office also said “nothing has yet been
decided.”
The Senate bill, if adopted, would establish a one-year
moratorium on the closing of rural post offices, and cut in
half the number of processing centers targeted for closure.
It would also allow more areas to maintain overnight, firstclass delivery for three years.
The original meeting concerning Pemberton’s post office
took place Oct. 4.
General Patrick Donahoe said
if the bill became law, he would
have to return to Congress in a
few years to get emergency
help.
“It is totally inappropriate
in these economic times to
keep unneeded facilities open.
There is simply not enough
mail in our system today,” the
Postal Service’s board of governors said in a statement. “It is
also inappropriate to delay the
implementation of five-day delivery.”
The Senate bill would halt
the immediate closing of up to
252 mail-processing centers
and 3,700 post offices, part of a
postal cost-cutting plan to save

some $6.5 billion a year. Donahoe previously said he would
begin making cuts after May
15 if Congress didn’t act, warning that the agency could run
out of money this fall.
The measure would save
about half the mail processing
centers the Postal Service
wants to close, from 252 to 125,
allowing more areas to maintain overnight first-class mail
delivery for at least three more
years. It also would bar any
shutdowns before the November elections, protect rural post
offices for at least a year, give
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The Shelby County Engineer’s Office is planning road resurfacing and bridge work on county roadways this summer.
The county is planning to resurface 18.2 miles of roads:
• A little more than three miles of County Road 25A will be
resurfaced from Ohio 119 to Ohio 274.
• The county will also resurface almost two miles of Kettlersville Road from Ohio 274 to Botkins Road.
• A quarter of a mile of Lock-Two Road at Kettlersville Road
will also be resurfaced.
• The county also will resurface Hardin-Wapakoneta Road
from Ohio 705 to Ohio 29, Miller Road from Ohio 47 to Fort Recovery Road, Brandewie Road from Ohio 705 to Dirksen Road,
Logan-Shelby Road from a half mile south of Johnston Road to
the CSX Railroad, McCartyville Road from Hoying Road to Ohio
119 and Tawawa-Maplewood Road from Miami-Shelby Road East
to South Street.
The total cost estimated for the resurfacing project is
$1,352,653.07.
The county will also replace bridges and culverts. There are six
projects under contract. These projects are ones that the county
seeks bids on and awards the contract to a construction firm.
The bridges under contract are:
• Russia-Versailles Road between Kelch and Rangeline Roads.
• Tawawa-Maplewood Road north of Sidney-Plattsville Road.
• Tawawa-Maplewood Road south of Deweese Road.
• Dingman-Slagle Road between North and South TawawaMaplewood Road.
See PROJECTS/Page 2

Saturday delivery for two
years.
At the same time, the Postal
Service would get an infusion
of roughly $11 billion, basically
a refund of overpayments
made in previous years to a
federal retirement fund. That
would give it immediate liquidity to pay down debt to forestall
bankruptcy and finance buyouts to 100,000 postal employees.
The agency could make
smaller annual payments into
a future retiree health benefits
account, gain flexibility in
trimming worker compensation benefits and find additional ways to raise postal
revenue under a new chief innovation officer.
Other bill provisions would:
• Place a one-year moratorium on closing rural post offices and then require the mail
agency to take rural issues into
special consideration. Post offices generally would be protected from closure if the
closest mail facility was more
than 10 miles away. The exception would be cases in which
there was no significant community opposition.
• Shut five of the seven post
offices on the Capitol grounds.
• Take into account the impact on small businesses before
closing mail facilities.
• Cap postal executive pay
through 2015 at $199,000, the
same level as a Cabinet secretary, and create a system under
which the top people at the
Postal Service are paid based
on performance.

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Deisher, longtime editor Deputies seek man
of Coin World, retires
Beth Deisher, longestserving editor of Coin
World, retires today after
27 years at the helm of the
numismatic publication
and 31 years with Amos
Press.
A news release from
the Sidney-based company quotes Deisher as
saying she’s retiring to
open a new chapter in her
life.
Replacing her is Steven
R. Roach, 32, the publication’s associate editor
since 2009 and a monthly
Coin World columnist
since 2006.
Deisher, who resides in
Bellefontaine with her
husband, Art, joined the
Coin World staff in 1981
as news editor before becoming its editorial team
leader. Her first assignment with Amos Press
Inc. was as news editor of
the Sidney Daily News,
which she joined in 1977.

Deisher

Roach

A graduate of the University of North Carolina
at Greensboro, Deisher
began her career in professional journalism in
1969 as a staff writer for
the Ledger-Star, an afternoon daily newspaper in
Norfolk, Va.
Before coming to Ohio,
she served as a communication specialist with the
Virginia Education Association, editing a monthly
newsletter and serving as
a features editor of the
Virginia Journal of Education.

She is author of “Making the Grade — A Grading Guide to the Top 50
Most Widely Collected
U.S. Coins,” has supervised six editions of “Coin
World’s Almanac” and was
founding editor of “Coin
World’s Guide to U.S.
Coins, Prices and Value
Trends,” published annually since 1989.
Coin World today
reaches 365,000 collectors
each month through
print, web and mobile
technology.
Steve Roach is the
fourth editor to lead Coin
World’s editorial staff in
the hobby publication’s
52-year history.
Steve Collins, vice president, operations, of Amos
Hobby Publishing, announced Roach’s promotion Monday.
During the past three
years, Roach has led the
company’s Coin Values

pricing analyst team and
has written the weekly
Market Analysis column.
In addition, he has covered legislative and legal
issues.
Roach received his undergraduate degree with
high honors in art history
from the University of
Michigan and also earned
a law degree from The
Ohio State University.
Early in his career, Roach
served as a senior coin
grader and later as director of the trusts and estates department at
Heritage Auctions in Dallas.
He is a 29-year member of the American Numismatic
Association,
which named him Outstanding Young Numismatist of the Year in 1997.
Roach says he has been
reading Coin World since
he was a 10-year-old coin
collector.

• County Road 25A
south of Sharp Road.
The culvert under contract is on Miami-Conservancy Road south of
Hathaway Road.
The estimated costs for
these six contracted projects is $1,505,000.
There are also several
projects planned by the
county under force account. This means the
structures will be built
with the county’s own
crews.
The projects planned
are:
• Bridges — McCartyville Road south of Ohio
119; Darke-Shelby Road
south of Ohio 507; Schenk
Road between Fair Road
and Vandemark Road;
Kuther Road between
Miami River Road and
Hathaway Road; HardinWapakoneta Road south
of Ohio 705; Kaiser Road

COUNTY

north of Ohio 47; LockTwo Road 2,340 feet west
of Heiland Kies Road; and
Lock-Two Road 675 feet
west of Heiland Kies
Road.
• Culverts — Cisco
Road west of Kuther
Road; Botkins Road east
of Fledderjohn Road; Stillwater Road north of
Fessler-Buxton
Road;
Fessler-Buxton Road east
of Stillwater Road; Foster
Road south of Smith
Road; and PattersonHalpin Road north of Russell Road.

Fire, rescue
THURSDAY
-4:41 a.m.: medical.
Sidney paramedics responded to the 500 block
of Buckeye Avenue on a
medical call.
WEDNESDAY
-11:42 p.m.: injury.
Medics responded to a report of an injury in the
300 block of Robinwood
Street.
-7:37 p.m.: alarm.
Firefighters were dispatched to 330 Sycamore
Ave. on a report of a fire
alarm. It was an accidental activation from cooking.
-6:49 p.m.: medical.
Medics responded to the
1800 block of Robert Place
on a medical call.
-3:43 p.m.: rescue.
Firefighters responded to
402 E. South St. for an animal rescue.

-3:25 p.m.: injury.
Medics responded to a report of an injury in the
200 block of East Pinehurst Street.
-12:05 p.m.: medical.
Medics responded to the
500 block of North Main
Avenue on a medical call.
-9:20 a.m.: medical.
Medics responded to the
300 block of Russell Road
on a medical call.

Accident
One person was injured in an accident on
Wednesday afternoon.
Sidney Police responded to West Court
Street near the Highland
Avenue overpass at 2:56
p.m. on a report of a single-vehicle accident. Cynthia R. Landon, 56, 936 N.
Miami Ave., was traveling eastbound on Court
Street when she lost control of her vehicle and
struck the guardrail.
Landon received moderate injuries and was
transported by Sidney
paramedics. Her vehicle
had severe damage. She
was cited with failure to
control.

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THURSDAY
-9:46 a.m.: scam.
Shelby County Sheriff’s
deputies responded to
20115 Linker Road on a
report of a victim of a
driveway scam.

CITY

in connection with the
scams that have targeted
elderly people in Shelby
County. Price is reported
to be 5 feet 6 inches tall
and weighs 205 pounds.
He has a driver’s license
from Kentucky and is
using “Busy Bee Construction” as his company’s name.
Residents who have
seen Price are asked to
contact the Sheriff’s Office
at 498-1111.

The Community is cordially invited to attend an

Please RSVP to 1-866-608-FIND (3463).

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Shelby County will be participating in the National
Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Saturday from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m.
At the drop-off sites, only pill or capsule medication
can be dropped off. The drops-off sites are not able to
accept liquids or needles. This is a great opportunity
for those who missed the previous events or who have
subsequently accumulated unwanted, unused prescription drugs to safely dispose of those medications,
event organizers said.
Residents will be able to drop off prescription medications at the Sidney Police Department; the Shelby
County Sheriff’s Office; Anna Police Department, 209
W. Main St.; Botkins Police Department, 207 W. South
St.; and the Jackson Center Police Department, 110 S.
Linden St.

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The Shelby County
Sheriff’s Office is looking
for a man
deputies
would like
to question about
recent
driveway
scams.
Danny
N. Price,
31,
of
Price
Kentucky,
is wanted for questioning

• The next recycling
drive will be May 5 from
9 to 11 a.m. Paper, magaziners, cardboard and
catalogs will be accepted.
Items should be placed in
paper bags, tied up or in
boxes. Cancellations will
be aired on WCSM 96.7
or call Jude with questions at (419) 582-2554.
• The Osgood American Legion monthly
youth drawing winners
are Cy Pleiman, Paul
Poeppelman,
Keith
Stucky, Eric Stucky, Don
Bemis and Urban Drees.
• On May 5, the Osgood Legion will sponsor
a dance from 8:30 to
11:30 p.m. The Bill Corfield Band will provide
the music.
• First Communion
will be held Sunday at
the 10:30 a.m. Mass.
• St. Nicholas vacation Bible school will be
held June 11-14 from
9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Parents are asked to register
youths who are preschool
to fourth grade (3-yearolds will be accepted if
they are potty trained).
The fee is $5 per child
($15 maximum per family). The theme is “A
Community Gathering at
the Son Rise National
Park.” Parents should
sign up by May 20 at the
church entrances or call
Shannon Gehret at (419)
582-2116.

CORRECTION
Rhonda
Schemmel
was licensed in 2009 and
received the Rookie of
the Year award from the
Midwestern Ohio Association of Realtors in 2010.
Incorrect information
originally was provided
to the Sidney Daily
News.

WAPAKONETA —
Bobbie J. Helmlinger, 79,
of Wapakoneta, died at
1:05 p.m., on Wednesday,
April 25, 2012, at the
Ohio State University
Medical Center, Columbus.
She was born Feb. 6,
1933, in Lawrenceburg,
Tenn., the daughter of
Homer Gaines and Pearl
(Beatty) Burks, who preceded her in death.
On May 25, 1963, she
married Donald H.
Helmlinger, and he died
Feb. 20, 1996.
Survivors include a
son, Danny R. (Arlene)
Waldrop, of Wapakoneta;
a daughter, Jeri (Roger)
Puthoff, of Minster; two
stepsons, Donald (Kimberly) Helmlinger Jr.
and Anthony P. Helmlinger, both of Phoenix,
Ariz.; eight grandchildren, Amy (Ted) Wissman, Bryan Purpus,
Shonda (Josh) Hall, Kyle
Waldrop, Blaine Helmlinger, Geoff Helmlinger,
Gretchen Stone and
Gillian Helmlinger; 10
great grandchildren; and
a sister, Nell Bunt, of
Lawrenceburg, Tenn.
She was preceded in
death by a brother,
William Burks; a sister

Richard A. Jenkins

PIQUA
—
A.
Richard
Jenkins, 65, of
1001 Boone St.,
died at 6:15
a.m., Wednesday, April 25,
2012, at Upper
Valley Medical
Center.
He was born
Aug. 11, 1946, in
Piqua, to the late
Paul and Mildred
(Cathcart) Jenkins.
He
married
Becky J. Stewart on
April 8, 1969, in Quincy;
she survives.
Other survivors include four children,
Anita (Craig) Miller,
Brian Jenkins, Jason
(Jodi) Jenkins and Natalie Jenkins, all of
Piqua; three grandchildren, Kayla Miller,
Austin Jenkins and
Dylan Jenkins; and
seven siblings, Bill Kimbell, of Michigan, Jackie
Dean, of Piqua, Linda
Gauger, of Chicago, Ill.,
Don (Lois) Moore, of
Greenville,
Diane
Sturms, of Piqua, Bonnie
White, of Piqua, and
Patti Asher, of Piqua.
He was preceded in
death by a sister, Nancy
McCullough; and three
brothers, Robert Jenkins, Ronald Jenkins and
Dale Moore.
Mr. Jenkins was a
and brother-in-law, Ruth 1965 graduate of Piqua
(Leon) Moore; and a
Leo
brother-in-law,
Bunt.
Retired, Bobbie was a
MINSTER — Evelyn
homemaker. She was a
member of the Salem C. Eiting, 84, formerly of
Methodist Eiting Road, and a resiUnited
Church, Wapakoneta. dent of Otterbein St.
Her hobbies included Marys for 1 1/2 years,
gardening, traveling and died at 2 a.m. on
spending time with her Wednesday, April 25,
family, especially her 2012, at Otterbein St.
Marys.
grandchildren.
She was born Dec. 1,
Funeral
services
will be held at 10:30 1927, in Maria Stein, to
a.m. on Monday at the the late William and
United Mary (Buening) OverSalem
Methodist
Church, man.
She married Wilmer
Wapakoneta,
with
Eiting on March 3,
“Bud”
Pastor Sean Morris
officiating. Burial will 1962. He preceded her in
follow in the Green- death on April 11, 1973.
She is survived by her
lawn Cemetery, Wadaughter,
Elaine and
pakoneta.
The family will re- Eric Roemer, of Ancona,
ceive friends from 2 Ill.; grandchildren, Jason
to 6 p.m. on Sunday at and Isaac; sister, Joanne
the Bayliff and Eley Vondenhueval, of New
Funeral Home, Ohio Bremen; sister-in-law,
501, Wapakoneta, and Mary Ann Overman, of
on Monday one hour St. Marys; brother-inprior to the service at law, Kenneth Eiting, of
Minster; and sister-inthe church.
Memorial contribu- law, Ethel Joyce, of Vantions may be directed to dalia.
She was preceded in
the
Salem
United
death by her husband;
Methodist Church.
Condolences may be parents; and brothers
expressed at www.baylif- and sister, Irene Lallemand, Leroy Overman,
fandeleyfh.com.
Victor Overman, Eugene
wife, Sue; two
sons,
Joe
of
Krouskop,
Sharon, S.C. and
A
n
d
y
Williamson and
his wife, Jamie,
of Marshfield,
Mo.; a daughter,
Sherri Roe, of
Sidney; a grandson, Derick Roe,
of Hamilton, N.Y.;
two
brothers,
C h a r l e s
Krouskop, of Marion, and William
Krouskop, of Sidney; one
stepdaughter, Melissa
Bennett, of Buffalo, Mo.;
one stepgranddaughter,
Samantha Baldwin, of
Buffalo, Mo.; and one
stepgreat-greatgranddaughter,
Jewel
Baldwin, of Conway, Mo.
Funeral
services
were held on Thursday at the Fraker Funeral
Home,
Marshfield, Mo. Interment with full military honors followed
at Prospect Methodist
Cemetery.
Visitation was held
on Wednesday in the
funeral home.
Online condolences to
the family can be made
at www.frakerfuneralhome.com.

MARSHFIELD, Mo. —
Lee
Richard
Krouskop, son
of C. Everett
Krouskop and
Erma (Moore)
Krouskop, was
born Sept. 2,
1939, in Logan
He
County.
passed away at
2:35 p.m., Sunday, April 22,
2012, in his home
east of Marshfield, Mo., at the
age of 72 years, seven
months and 20 days.
Richard was a retired
police officer in Sidney.
In 1982, he and his wife,
Sue, purchased a dairy
farm east of Marshfield,
Mo., where they milked
and farmed for many
years. He was also a
longtime school bus
driver for the Marshfield
School District and an
active member of the
Prospect
Methodist
Church.
He was preceded in
death by his parents; two
sons, David Krouskop
and
Christopher
Krouskop; one stepson,
Kevin Byron; and one
grandson, Josh Lee Albers.
Survivors include his

400 Folkerth Avenue, Sidney

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FORT LORAMIE —
Fort Loramie will hold
its annual Large-Item
Cleanup Day Saturday
from 8 a.m. to noon.
Roll-off Dumpsters
will be located at the
utility building at 100
Tower Drive in the Industrial Park for Fort
Loramie residents only.
Appliances must have
their Freon removed and
tagged in order to be accepted.

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High School and
served in the
U.S. Army. He
worked
for
Hartzell Fan for
12 years and retired from the
Piqua
City
Schools after 20
years of service.
Richard was a life
member of the
Piqua Eagles 614
and was an umpire and former
commissioner for
the PYBSA. He
enjoyed playing softball,
bowling and baseball
card collecting.
A memorial service
to honor his life will
be conducted at 11
a.m. on Saturday at
the Jamieson & Yannucci Funeral Home,
with the Rev. Jack
Chalk officiating. Private burial will be in
Fairview Cemetery,
Quincy, where full
military honors will
be conducted by the
Veterans Elite Tribute Squad.
Memorial contributions may be made to
the Alzheimer’s Association, 3797 Summit Glen
Dr. G100, Dayton, OH
45449; or Hospice of
Miami County, P.O. Box
502, Troy, OH 45373.
Condolences to the
family may also be expressed through jamiesonandyannucci.com.

Evelyn C. Eiting
Overman and Edgar
Overman.
She was a member of
St. Augustine Catholic
Church, Minster. Evelyn
was a collector of Precious Moments, Beanie
Babies and figurines and
she loved her grandsons.
She was a homemaker
at the farm, a nanny in
Dayton, worked at White
Mountain Creamery and
retired from Goodyear.
A Mass of Christian
Burial will be held at
9:30 a.m. on Saturday
at
St.
Augustine
Catholic Church, with
the
Rev.
Rick
Nieberding celebrant.
Friends may call at
the Hogenkamp Funeral Home, Minster,
from 4 to 7 p.m. today
and from 8:30 to 9:15
a.m. on Saturday. Burial will take place in St.
Augustine Cemetery.
The family requests
memorials be made to
the Alzheimer’s Association and the Minster Firing Squad.
Condolences may be
made
at
www.hogenkampfh.com.

Alma E. Clune
MINSTER —
Alma E. Clune,
76, of 1965 Amsterdam Road,
died at 6:15
p.m.,
on
W e d n e s d a y,
April 25, 2012,
at her home.
She was born
June 30, 1935, in Montezuma, to the late
Izador and Bertha (Tumbusch) Steinke.
She married Leonard
F. Clune on Nov. 24, 1956,
in Montezuma. He survives.
She is also survived by
children, Jane and Ron
Phlipot, of Troy, Nancy
and Wally Wagner, of
Minster, and Rick and
Carol Clune, of Piqua;
brothers and sisters, Esther and Tim Mattingly,
of Kettering, Paul and
Margie Steinke, of Tipp
City, and Jesse and
Shirley Steinke, of Coldwater; sister-in-law, Millie Steinke, of Tipp City;
brother-in-law, Norbert
Kramer, of Chickasaw; 10
grandchildren and nine
great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in
death by brothers and

sisters, James
Steinke, Charles
Steinke, Alice
Kramer and Lily
Steinke.
She was a
member of St.
John the Baptist
Catholic Church,
Maria Stein, and
of the Ladies Sodality of
the Church. She was retired from Heritage
Manor, Minster, and a
homemaker.
A Mass of Christian
Burial will be held at
10:30 a.m. on Monday
at St. John the Baptist
Catholic Church, with
the Rev. Tom Brenberger celebrant.
Friends may call at
the Hogenkamp Funeral Home, Minster,
from 2 to 7 p.m. on
Sunday and on Monday from 9 to 10 a.m.
Burial will take place
in St. John Cemetery,
Maria Stein.
The family requests
donations be made to
State of the Heart Hospice.
Condolences may be
made
at
www.hogenkampfh.com.

Village to put
levy on ballot
BY JENNIFER BUMGARNER
jbumgarner@sdnccg.com
PORT JEFFERSON — Port Jefferson Village
Council met recently and passed a resolution to
place a 1-mill levy on the November ballot.
The levy will allow the fire department to operate and will be for the next three years. Council decided to place the levy on the ballot to help take the
cost from the village.
“We’ve been paying for it out of the village fund,”
said mayor David Clem. “With a decrease in local
government funds from the state, we know the
budget will get tighter.”
The village is also planning an income survey
and will be working with the Shelby County Regional Planning Commission. Council members are
planning on collecting the income information but
no one in the village will look at the figures.
“This survey is for community block grant funding,” said council member Steve Butterfield. “Once
you do this, it should be good for five years.”
By completing the survey, it will allow the village
to know if it qualifies for funding. According to
Clem, it will also benefit the fire department if the
department decides to apply for a grant.
The fire department is also in the planning
stages of a mini-community festival, which is scheduled for Sept. 1.
Council entered into executive session to discuss
personnel issues before adjourning.

STATE NEWS

Sidney Daily News, Friday, April 27, 2012

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Lesbian Scout leader Man charged
ousted; parents upset in road-rage
BY JOHN SEEWER
Associated Press
The first-graders in
Ohio Pack 109’s Tiger
Scouts didn’t know or
care their den mother
was a lesbian — at least
not until the Boy Scouts
of America threw her out
over the organization’s
ban on gays.
Now, parents who
were aware of Jennifer
Tyrrell’s sexual orientation well before she took
the boys on campouts
and helped them carve
race cars for the annual
Pinewood Derby have
rallied to her defense in a
case that has re-ignited
the debate over the
Scouts’ policy.
“I teach my children to
judge people on their actions,” said Rob Dunn, a
father in Bridgeport, a
village of about 2,000
across the Ohio River
from Wheeling, W.Va.
“Whether you agree with
their lifestyle or not.”
The Boy Scouts of
America, whose oath
calls for members to be

“morally straight,” maintains that as a private organization it has the
right to exclude gays and
atheists from its ranks.
That stance was upheld by the U.S. Supreme
Court in 2000 but has led
many state and local governments to deny support for the Scouts.
Male scout leaders
who are gay have long
been barred, but instances of women being
excluded are not welldocumented and probably rare. A lesbian couple
in Vermont were told two
years ago that they could
no longer be involved
with their son’s Scout
troop.
Because of the policy,
Tyrrell said she only reluctantly allowed her 7year-old son to join up in
Bridgeport, where she
lives with her partner
and their four children.
Told, she said, by the
local cub master that it
didn’t matter that she is
a lesbian, she was
drafted to lead the pack
in September.

incident

AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews

IN THIS Wednesday photo, Jennifer Tyrrell walks
across a street with her son Cruz Burns, 7, during
a visit to New York. Tyrrell traveled to New York
from her home in Bridgeport to build momentum
for a petition to overturn what she says are Ohio
Boy Scout’s anti-gay policies, after she was removed as den leader for her son’s Cub Scout troop.

Private development panel in legal limbo
COLUMBUS (AP) — A private
economic development agency
created by Gov. John Kasich to
move “at the speed of business”
has been slowed to a near halt in
obtaining its start-up money as it
awaits the outcome of a lawsuit.
A bond sale that JobsOhio expected to complete in the first
quarter has not yet taken place,
leaving it without $100 million it
would have used to create business incentives.
The delay also has left the
state without the first $500 million it would get under a deal requiring it to transfer 25 years of

profits from state liquor sales to
JobsOhio in exchange for the upfront bond money. The deal could
raise as much as $1.4 billion for
the state.
Despite the hurdles, Ohio has
added or retained 100,000 jobs in
the past year, a quarter of what it
lost during the previous four
years. Kasich ties the progress to
the new approach.
At the same time, Kasich, JobsOhio’s financial guru Mark
Kvamme and budget director Tim
Keen all have been cautioning
state lawmakers not to look at a
projected $265 million budget

surplus as real money. Unless the
bond deal is done by the end of
the fiscal year on June 30, Keen
testified recently, the state’s apparently rosy budget picture
could quickly turn south.
Attorney
General
Mike
DeWine has thrown a further
wrench into things by raising new
questions about the public
records rules lawmakers are debating for JobsOhio. He says
broad wording in a bill that
cleared the Ohio House on
Wednesday and has headed to the
Senate could turn otherwise public records private.

BY WILL E SANDERS type of cooperation we get
Ohio Community Media here in Piqua because
wsanders@dailycall.com that is what allows us to
keep ahead of the game,”
TROY — A Piqua man Grove said, speaking of
held in the Miami County the tip a citizen gave that
Jail on a felony parole vi- allowed police to make a
olation
swift arrest. “In commuwas offinities where citizens
c i a l l y
don’t cooperate with the
charged
police, crimes don’t get
with felosolved and the crime rate
nious asincreases.”
sault by
On April 19, Moore
the Piqua
and a motorcyclist, Dusty
Police DeHogston, 43, of Piqua,
partment
were traveling southo
n
bound along the bridge
Moore
We d n e s when Moore cut Hogston
day morning for an April off before the two stopped
19 hit-and-run near the at the intersection of
North
Main
Street North Main Street and
Bridge.
Riverside Drive where a
Jason M. Moore, 27, of verbal altercation turned
Piqua, was arraigned in physical.
Miami County Municipal
allege
Authorities
Court on Wednesday on Moore and Hogston
one count of felonious as- traded punches before
sault, a felony of the sec- Moore struck Hogston
ond-degree that carries a with his vehicle and fled
potential prison sentence the scene.
of two to eight years beHogston was airlifted
hind bars.
to Miami Valley Hospital
Moore was given a for injuries he sustained
$100,000 bond, and in ad- as a result of the hit-anddition is currently being run, but was dismissed
detained for his parole vi- Saturday.
olation.
Court documents show
A preliminary hearing that Moore has been cited
for Moore has been for numerous traffic citafor
next tions dating back to 2004,
scheduled
month.
including several violaMoore was taken into tions for seat belts, child
custody April 20 on the restraints, having an exparole violation after a pired license, running a
tip from the public led po- red light, use of unautholice to a garage in the 800 rized plates, fictitious
block of South Miami Av- plates, expired plates,
enue in Sidney where the speeding, operating a vesuspect vehicle, a 1997 hicle without a valid liEagle Talon, was recov- cense and amplification.
ered, seized and later
Currently, Moore has
searched by police, said at least four points
Piqua Deputy Chief against his driver’s liMarty Grove.
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Bin Laden
family goes
ISLAMABAD (AP) —
Pakistani authorities deported Osama bin Laden’s
three widows and his children to Saudi Arabia early
Friday, less than a week before the first anniversary of
the unilateral American
raid that killed the al-Qaida
leader in his hideout in a
military town.
The departure of the
family closed another chapter in an affair that cemented
Pakistan’s
reputation as a hub of Islamist extremism and cast
doubt on its trustworthiness as a Western ally.
Once outside Pakistan,
the wives may be willing to
share any information they
have about how bin Laden
managed to evade capture
in the country for nearly a
decade following the Sept.
11, 2001 terror attacks in
the United States.

Troopers
made errors
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.
(AP) — A Florida Highway
Patrol sergeant opposed reopening a fog- and smokeshrouded
interstate
highway, but he was overruled by a higher-ranking
officer shortly before a series of crashes killed 11 people, state investigators said
in a report released Thursday.
The Florida Department
of Law Enforcement concluded state troopers made
errors but found no criminal
violations.
Early in the morning of
Jan. 29, wildfire smoke
mixed with fog blanketed
six-lane Interstate 75 near
Gainesville where it cuts
through Paynes Prairie
State Park, a low area that
lacks billboards or other
lighting.

Boehner,
Dems clash
WASHINGTON (AP) —
House
Speaker
John
Boehner accused President
Barack Obama on Thursday of conduct “beneath the
dignity of the White House.”
The top House Democrat
said Boehner considers the
health of women “a luxury.”
In a measure of the
sharp elbows both parties
are throwing this election
year, note that those words
were exchanged over legislation whose basic purpose
they say they agree on: preventing interest rates on
millions of federal student
loans from doubling to 6.8
percent this summer.
Their chief remaining
dispute is how to pay for the
$5.9 billion cost of keeping
those rates low. When it
comes to that, each side has
in effect taken a political
hostage: House Republicans
would cut spending from
Obama’s health care overhaul law, Senate Democrats
would boost payroll taxes on
owners of some private corporations and House Democrats would erase federal
subsidies to oil and gas companies.

OUT OF THE BLUE
Eternal flame
snuffed out
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan
(AP) — When is an “Eternal
Flame” not eternal? In Kyrgyzstan, it’s when you don’t
pay the gas bill.
A utilities company in
the economically struggling
former Soviet nation has
turned off the gas supply to
a major war memorial in
the capital, Bishkek, after
city authorities failed to
clear a $9,400 debt.
The episode reflects the
dismal financial state of the
Central Asian nation, which
has been wracked for years
by political unrest and a
sluggish economy.

FORMER LIBERIAN President
Charles Taylor takes notes as
he waits for the start of a
hearing to deliver verdict in
the court room of the Special
Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, near The Hague,
Netherlands, Thursday.

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) —
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor became the first head of state since World War II
to be convicted by an international war crimes
court, a historic verdict that sends a message
that tyrants worldwide will be tracked down
and brought to justice.
The warlord-turned-president was found
guilty on Thursday of 11 counts of war crimes
and crimes against humanity for arming Sierra
Leone rebels in exchange for “blood diamonds”
mined by slave laborers and smuggled across
the border.
Judges at the Special Court for Sierra Leone
said Taylor played a crucial role in allowing the
rebels to continue a bloody rampage during
that West African nation’s 11-year civil war,
which ended in 2002 with more than 50,000
dead. Ten years after the war ended, Sierra
Leone is still struggling to rebuild.
The rebels gained international notoriety for
hacking off the limbs of their victims and carving their groups’ initials into opponents and
even children they kidnapped, drugged and
turned into killers. The rebels developed gruesome terms for the mutilations that became

their chilling trademark: They would offer their
victims the choice of “long sleeves” or “short
sleeves” — having their hands hacked off or
their arms sliced off above the elbow.
The 64-year-old Taylor will be sentenced next
month after a separate hearing.
The court has no death penalty and no life
sentence. Judges have given eight other rebels
as much as 52 years in prison.
The verdict was hailed by prosecutors, victims and rights activists as a watershed moment in efforts to end impunity for leaders
responsible for atrocities.
The ruling “permanently locks in and solidifies the idea that heads of state are now accountable for what they do to their own people,”
said David Crane, the former prosecutor who
indicted Taylor in 2003 and is now a professor of
international law at Syracuse University. “This
is a bell that has been rung and clearly rings
throughout the world. If you are a head of state
and you are killing your own people, you could
be next.”
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hailed
the judgment as “a significant milestone for international criminal justice” that “sends a
strong signal to all leaders that they are and
will be held accountable for their actions,” said
U.N. deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey.

Secret
Service
probe
expands
BY ALICIA A. CALDWELL
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Expanding the prostitution
investigation, the Secret Service acknowledged Thursday it
is checking whether its employees hired strippers and
prostitutes in advance of President Barack Obama’s visit
last year to El Salvador.
The disclosure came not
long after the Homeland Security secretary assured skeptical senators that the recent
prostitution scandal in Colombia appeared to be an isolated
incident.
A spokesman for the Secret
Service, Edwin Donovan, said
the agency was investigating
allegations raised in news reports about unprofessional behavior that have emerged in
the aftermath of the Colombia
incident. The latest, by Seattle television station KIROTV,
quoted
anonymous
sources as saying that Secret
Service employees received
sexual favors from strippers
at a club in San Salvador and
took prostitutes to their hotel
rooms ahead of Obama’s visit
to the city in March 2011.
Prostitution is legal in both
Colombia and El Salvador.
Separately, The Washington Post this week cited unnamed “confidants” of the
Secret Service officers implicated in Colombia saying senior managers had tolerated
similar behavior during previous official trips. The Post described a visit to Buenos Aires
in 2009 by former President
Bill Clinton, whose protective
detail it said included agents
and uniformed officers. During that trip, the Post said,
members of the detail went
out for a late night of partying
at strip clubs.
Donovan said Thursday,
“Any information brought to
our attention that can be assessed as credible will be followed up on in an appropriate
manner.”
In a confidential message
to senators, also Thursday, the
Secret Service said its Office
of Professional Responsibility
had not received complaints
about officer behavior in El
Salvador but would investigate. In the message, the
agency sought to cast doubt
on the KIRO report, noting
that it does not routinely send
K-9 or explosive-detection
units as part of its advance
teams; KIRO said the advance
team included those elements.

AP Photo/Kyrre Lien/NTB Scanpix

SOME 40,000 people stand in drizzling rain in Youngstorget square, Oslo, Norway, Thursday
to participate in the singing of “Barn av Regnbuen” (“Children of the Rainbow”). The song,
which was a hit of Norwegian folk singer Lillebjoern Nilsen several decades ago, has become
a signature tune for the victims of the July 22, 2011, bombing and shooting massacre that
killed 77 people as survivors gave tearful testimony Thursday in the trial of mass killer Anders
Behring Breivik.

Thousands defy Norwegian
mass killer with song
BY JULIA GRONNEVET
Associated Press
OSLO, Norway (AP) —
They gathered by the tens of
thousands in the drenching
rain to face down terrorism
with song.
Drawn by a Facebook-organized protest, Norwegians
flocked to public squares
across the country Thursday
and rallied against far-right
fanatic
Anders
Behring
Breivik, now on trial for a
bomb-and-shooting rampage
that killed 77 people.
They sang a Norwegian version of a Pete Seeger tune that
the confessed mass killer
claims has been used to brainwash the country’s youth into
supporting immigration.
Defiant singalongs of “Children of the Rainbow” were

staged in Oslo and other major
Norwegian cities, even as the
ninth day of the trial went on
with survivors of Breivik’s attacks giving tearful testimony.
In downtown Oslo alone,
about 40,000 people raised
their voices as Norwegian
artist
Lillebjoern
Nilsen
played the song, a Norwegian
version of Seeger’s “My Rainbow Race.”
They sang the Norwegian
lyrics:
“A sky full of stars, blue sea
as far as you can see
“An earth where flowers
grow, can you wish for more?
“Together shall we live,
every sister, brother
“Young children of the rainbow, a fertile land.”
Seeger’s lyrics in the original version have a similar
message of living together in

harmony.
In testimony last week,
Breivik mentioned the tune as
an example of how he believes
“cultural Marxists” have infiltrated Norwegian schools and
weakened its society.
The crowd later marched to
the Oslo courthouse, where
they laid a carpet of red and
white roses on the steps and
the fence.
Reached at home in Beacon,
N.Y., the 92-year-old Seeger
told The Associated Press he
had heard about the mass
gathering in a phone call from
Nilsen.
“I said, ‘Oh that’s wonderful,’” Seeger said. “It’s a
tremendous honor, really. One
of the greatest honors a songwriter could have is to have a
song of theirs sung in another
country.”

Former Edwards aide: Donors’
cash went into NC house
BY MICHAEL BIESECKER
Associated Press
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — John Edwards’ ex-aide acknowledged Thursday that
much of nearly $1 million in campaign supporters’ cash went to build his North Carolina
dream house, not to buy the silence of the
presidential candidate’s pregnant mistress.
Andrew Young testified for a fourth
straight day at Edwards’ campaign finance
fraud trial, peppered with questions from Edwards attorney Abbe Lowell about the money
from two donors that flowed into personal accounts controlled by Young and his wife.
Young has said he took secret payments
from wealthy donors at Edwards’ direction to
help conceal the presidential contender’s affair with Rielle Hunter and keep his 2008

presidential campaign viable.
Young said the checks secretly provided by
a then-96-year-old heiress were mixed with
the couple’s other house funds, much of which
went into renovations and construction of
their $1.5 million hilltop house on 10 acres
near Chapel Hill, N.C. Young often deferred
questions on the payments to his wife, Cheri,
saying “my wife is the one who handles the finances in our family.”
Young’s testimony is considered key to the
prosecution’s case that while campaigning for
the White House, Edwards directed a scheme
to use the money from the heiress and a
Texas lawyer to conceal his affair with
Hunter.
Young initially claimed he was the father
of Hunter’s daughter and took her into his
home with his wife.

LOCALIFE
Page 6

Friday, April 27, 2012

Attending a friend’s wedding

CALENDAR

This Evening
• Hope in Recovery, similar to traditional 12-step
programs to confront destructive habits and behaviors, meets at the First Presbyterian Church, 114 E.
4th St., Greenville, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. For more information, call (937) 548-9006.
• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Staying Clean
for the Weekend, meets at 7 p.m. at First United
Methodist Church, 230 E. Poplar St.

Monday Afternoon
• Sidney Rotary Club meets at noon. For more information on activities or becoming a member, contact Scott Barhorst at 492-0823.
• The New Knoxville Community Library will
hold story time from 1 to 1:30 p.m. for children 3, 4
and 5. Stories, songs and more.

Monday Evening
• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Vision of Hope,
group meets at 7 p.m. at Russell Road Church, 340 W.
Russell Road.
• Overeaters Anonymous, a 12-step program for
anyone desiring to stop eating compulsively, meets
at 7 p.m. at Hillcrest Baptist Church, 1505 S. Main
St., Bellefontaine.
• Sidney Boy Scout Troop 97 meets at 7 p.m. at St.
Paul’s United Church of Christ. All new members are
welcome. For more information, call Tom Frantz at
492-7075.
• TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) meets at 7
p.m. at Faith Alliance Church, New Knoxville Road,
New Bremen.

We attended
pudding pie and
the wedding on
grape jello pudof
Thursday
ding. Tables are
Matthew and
set up in a big
Leanna. Daughbuilding
that
ter
Elizabeth
can seat quite a
and her friend
few people at
Timothy were
one time. It
witnesses at the
varies on how
Amish
w e d d i n g .
big the building
Cook
Matthew is a
is as to how
brother to Timo- Lovina Eicher many tables can
thy. The bride
be set up. The
chose the color navy that couple has around 12 to
the two girl witnesses 16 couples who serve as
and herself wore along table-waiters, usually
with a white cape and sisters, brothers, cousins,
apron. In this commu- or close friends of the
nity, the bride gets mar- bride and groom.
ried wearing a black
Yesterday, our church
head covering and after services were held at our
she is married she neighbor’s home. We
switches to white and have Communion twice
will never wear a black a year and yesterday
covering again. At Amish was one of those occaweddings there are usu- sions. It was a nice and
ally two couples that are chilly day. Seems the
witnesses at a wedding, weather has been stayone for the bride and one ing cool and we don’t get
for the groom. Usually it very warm days.
is a brother or sister or
I started a fire in the
close friend of the bride stove in the basement
and groom. Services this morning. The house
start about 9 a.m. and feels better with some
usually the couples are heat in it. We burn our
married by 11:30 a.m. or coal during the winter
noon. Afterward, a big months but on days like
dinner is served to all this, we burn wood. That
the guests. The menu on is an extra chore to keep
Thursday was mashed going downstairs and
potatoes, gravy, green adding more wood. I
beans, dressing, poor guess I am spoiled as
man’s steak, cabbage during the winter when
salad, homemade bread, we are burning coal I
butter and jam, a variety only have to add coal
of colorful cakes, key once a day. Our stove has
lime, chocolate-vanilla a coal hopper and it only

QUICK

has to be filled twice a
day during the winter
months. I usually fill it
in the morning and Joe
at night. We got quite a
bit of wood from the
trees which were uprooted in our yard earlier this spring. We also
sold three of the big logs
to the local sawmill. We
still need to get someone
to move the big tree
stumps. One of the
branches of the oak tree
was stuck down into the
ground 3 1 /2 to 4 feet.
We are thankful no one
was close to it when it
fell.
Sister Liz, Levi and
four of their children
stopped in on Saturday
for a short visit. They
had my sisters, Susan
and Verena, with them.
They had been to one of
Levi’s brother’s in this
community for dinner.
They bought a covered
buggy from him at an
auction. Levi was taking
the buggy back home to
Berne, Ind. They will sell
their open buggy, which
they bought from us
when we moved to
Michigan, and use the
covered one from now on.
I am sure they will like it
a lot better in the cold
winter months and when
it rains. The community
in Berne has open buggies but now several
churches are allowing
covered buggies. When

we lived in Berne we had
to drive in open buggies.
I thought I would have a
hard time getting used
to a covered buggy. Now
I think I would have to
get used to driving in the
open buggy during the
cold winter months. We
use a lot fewer coats
driving in the covered
buggy. When it rained,
our coats would get dirty
from the wheels splattering mud up on us.
Some people in this community
have
small
propane heaters in their
buggies, but we still do
not have one.
Today, after the laundry is done, we plan to
can some rhubarb juice.
My rhubarb is really big
already.
RHUBARB JUICE
8 pounds rhubarb,
diced
8 quarts water
2 12-ounce cans of
frozen orange juice
2 46-ounce cans of
pineapple juice
4 cups sugar
2
3-ounce
boxes
strawberry gelatin
Combine rhubarb and
water and cook until
rhubarb is soft. Drain,
discarding rhubarb, and
add the rest of ingredients to the juice. Stir
until sugar is dissolved.
Put hot juice into jars,
seal and cold pack for
five minutes.

READS

PHS Class of
’61 to meet

nament, raffle baskets
and face painting. Everything will be free or for a
small donation benefitting Relay for Life.
Prizes include an
overnight stay at the
Hampton Inn, gift certificates to local restaurants
and businesses, as well
as free-haircut vouchers.
The salon has recently
added new stylists and
new services.

PIQUA — The Piqua
Central High School
class of 1961 will meet
for lunch Wednesday at
the Backyard Bistro on
Commerce Drive in
Piqua at 12:30 p.m.
Spouses or significate
Tuesday Morning
others are also invited.
• Shelby County Local Emergency Planning Com- The group will order
mittee meets at 8 a.m. in the Ag Building.
from the menu.
• Local 725 Copeland retirees meet for breakfast
at 9 a.m. at Clancy’s. Retirees and spouses are welBible seminar
Customers
come.
planned
appreciated
• The F. J. Stallo Memorial Library in Minster will
hold Storytime from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. for children
TROY — The public is
Shear Creative, 704
3, 4 and 5.
Spruce Ave., will host a invited to a free seminar
customer and commu- called “Kingdom Living
Tuesday Afternoon
• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Addicts at nity appreciation day Empowerment” from 7 to
Work, meets at noon at St. John’s Lutheran Church, May 5 beginning at noon. 9 p.m. Tuesday at the
There will be food, Troy-Hayner Cultural
120 W. Water St.
games,
a corn hole tour- Center in Troy.
Tuesday Evening
• Head, Neck and Oral Cancer Support Group for
patients and caregivers meets at St. Rita’s Regional
Cancer Center in the Garden Conference Room from
D e a r
work. — Judy,
5 to 6:30 p.m. For more information, call (419) 227Heloise: Greetvia email
3361.
ings
from
Greetings to
• PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of LesLouisbourg,
you, Judy! How
bians and Gays) meets at 6 p.m. in the second floor
Nova
Scotia!
nice to hear from
board room of the Public Service Building on the
After recently
way up North,
OSU/Rhodes campus, 4240 Campus Drive, Lima. For
purchasing new
from my home
more information, call (419) 581-6065, email
lock sets for our
state, Texas! You
pflag_lima@yahoo.com.
home, I realized
are so right!
• Asthma Awareness educational classes will be
Hints
how many keys
There are sevheld at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital,
get tossed in
eral ways to refrom
St. Marys, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Registration is not rethe
garbage
cycle
them
Heloise around
quired and the class is free. For more information,
when locks of
the
call Stacy Hilgefort at (419) 394-3335, ext. 2004.
different types Heloise Cruse house:
• Minster Veterans of Foreign Wars meets for
are changed.
• Sew them
lunch at 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall on
Can old keys be recy- into the bottom of drapes
South Cleveland Street, Minster. A meeting will folcled in any way? Thanks, to help the drapes hang
low the meal.
and keep up the good straight.
• The Narcotics Anonymous group, Living the Basics, meets at 6:30 p.m. in the Apostolic Temple, 210
Pomeroy Ave.
• The Colon Cancer Support Group meets from 7
to 8 p.m. at the Troy Christian Church, 1440 E. State
Route 55, Troy. For more information, contact the
UVMC Cancer Care Center at (937) 440-4820.
• Blue Star Military Support Group will meet at
at Sidney Elks
7 p.m. at the American Legion, Fourth Avenue, to
prepare for sending boxes to troops.
221 S. Miami, Sidney
• The Tri-County Computer Users Group meets
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 5:30 - 7pm
at 7 p.m. at the Dorothy Love Retirement Commu$10 or donation
nity Amos Center Library and computer area. For
more information, call 492-8790.
All proceeds will go to benefit the

Subsequent seminars
will be May 8, 15 and 22.
This is a Bible-based discipleship (follower of
Christ) seminar. The instructor will be Pastor
Beverly Olgesby of the
Tru Kingdom Ministries.
Refreshments will be
served.
For more information,
contact Tina Ford at
(937) 369-4873.

Donations
sought
CLINTON — Ohio
Veterans’ Memorial Park
in Clinton has announced a fundraising
goal of $17,200 in a drive
for donations that will
permit the engraving of
names of slain Ohio serv-

ice people on a monument in the park.
The deadline for donations is July 4.
The plan is to include
the names of all Ohioans
who have lost their lives
in the war on terrorism.
See www.ovmp.org.

Kite fly set
TROY — WACO Aviation Learning Center
and Troy Noon Optimists
Club will host the annual Wings on Strings
family kite fly May 6
from noon to 3 p.m. at
Historic WACO Field,
1865 S. County Road
25A, Troy.
Everyone is invited to
make and fly a kite.
Materials are provided. Admission is free.

Ideas for a new turn for old keys

BENEFIT FOR
SETH ROGERS

8th grader, Seth Rogers who is
battling cancer.

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• Tie onto fishing line
and make into a wind
chime.
• Attach to zipper
pulls on heavy coats or
bags.
• Give kids a key
chain with keys to play
with.
• Sell or donate to
artists. — Heloise

CR Designs has what you are looking for!
This locally owned boutique has a variety of
affordable handbags, wallets, jewelry, scarves,
sunglasses and classic interior items!
Take a break and come in and have a cup
of coffee while you browse.

Couple to
wed
FORT LORAMIE —
Katie Lynn Larger, of Fort
Loramie, and Lucas David
Stephens, of Anna, have
announced their engageFor photo reprints, visit www.sidneydailynews.com
SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg
ment and plans to marry
AMANDA PARTINGTON (left), of Sidney, and Audrey Vaughan, of Dayton, both May 19, 2012, in the St.
on the staff of New Choices, arrange a display of auctions items at the shel- Michael Catholic Church
ter Tuesday.
in Fort Loramie.
The bride is the daughter of Rick and Cindy
Larger, of Fort Loramie.
Kathy Lindsey has “John Lenhart was the the criminal justice de- She graduated from Fort
been named the new di- sheriff and they did the partment at Edison Com- Loramie High School in
2006 and from the Unirector of New Choices, transporting. We shel- munity College.
the organization that tered people in Maria
She would like to ex- versity of Toledo with a
serves victims of domes- Stein, Miami County and pand a program that is Master of Education in
tic violence in Shelby Lima. And it was just me. presented in schools, to 2011. She is employed by
County.
Now I have 11 (employ- 3,874 students this year. Custom Foam Products
When she accepted ees).”
“I’d like to establish Inc. and also works as a
the appointment, she
Lindsey has a Bache- some transitional hous- substitute teacher.
Her fiance is the son of
might have experienced lor of Social Work from ing for women who are
Dave
and
Diane
“deja vu all over again.” Capital University and a back on their feet to help
Lindsey was the direc- Master of Criminal Jus- them get started,” she Stephens, of Anna. He is a
tor to established the tice from Capella Univer- said as she listed her 2004 graduate of Anna
High School and earned a
New Choices more than sity.
goals.
Master
of Business Ad30 years ago. At that
She has served as a
“I’d like to expand
time, its programs were Shelby County probation what we do with the kids. ministration from Univerpart of the Community officer, a paralegal in the That’s where you start in sity of Toledo in 2010. He
Services Council and in- county prosecutor’s office ending the acceptance of is employed by Crown
Equipment Corp.
cluded a hot line and not and recently retired as any kind of violence.”
much more.
director of the county’s
The shelter serves
“I answered hot line Victim Services Depart- about 250 people annucalls,” she said recently. ment. Lindsey teaches in ally.

The goal:
$40,000 by April 30.
Each can in the
pantry represents
$1,000.
Total to date is
$32,000.
To help fill the
shelves,
call 498-4368.

Lindsey named director — again

victims of domestic violence and their children
from Shelby County by
providing 24-hour services including support
and advocacy, crisis hotline, safe emergency

shelter, court accompaniment, and other services
designed to help victims
and their children stay
safe from violence in
their homes and to begin
lives free of violence.

Funds raised at this
event will support the
operation of the shelter
and its services.
For information about
the auction or the shelter, call 498-7261.

Rosenbeck/Grieshop

Hoyings celebrate 50th anniversary
Kitzmiller, Ann Malone
Diane
Luebrecht,
Rudolph
Maatz,
Nicholas Hoying and Edward Roettger. Mary
Agnes Hoying Muhlenkamp was the flower
girl. The wedding reception was at Kemper’s
Grove.
Walter retired after
39 years with Dayton
Power & Light. Sharon
is a registered nurse who
retired from Eagle Creek
nursing home.
They are the parents
of a living son and
daughter-in-law, DouMr. and Mrs. Hoying
glas and Amy Hoying, of
Russia; a deceased son,
Steven; four daughters Deborah and Louis Rose,
and three sons-in-law: of Xenia; Amy and Timo-

Girl Scouts make baskets
LIMA — To celebrate
Girl Scout Week in
March, Girl Scouts from
Service Unit 209 put together “Girl Scout Birthday Baby Baskets” and
donated them to baby
girls born at local area
hospitals.
This was done to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouts

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Larger/Stephens

ANNIVERSARY
Walter and Sharon
Hoying, of Sidney, will
celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary May 6,
2012, with a Mass at
10:30 a.m. at Holy Angels Church, followed by
an open house at the
Sidney Inn from 2 to 4
p.m.
Walter and the former
Sharon Roettger were
married May 2, 1962, in
the
St.
Augustine
Church in Minster. The
Rev.
Raymond
Schultheis officiated. Celestine Hoying was the
best man and Linda
Roettger Carr was the
maid of honor.
Other
attendants
were Marjorie Hoying

MAKE IT HARD
TO GO HUNGRY
IN SHELBY
COUNTY

by welcoming the next
generation of future female leaders.
Each basket contained
bottles,
wet
wipes, baby shampoo,
bibs, baby blanks and a
“Future Girl Scout” outfit.
Local area hospitals
the Girl Scouts visited
were Wilson Memorial

CORRECTION
In a National Day of
Prayer story Thursday,
the president of the
Shelby County Ministerial Association was
misidentified. The Rev.
Ben Hunt is president.

Church
women meet
MAPLEWOOD
—
Maplewood
United
Methodist Women hosted
their annual Know Thy
Neighbor evening in April,
hosting 35 women as
guests.
Brenda Baker
was chairperson.
President Judy Vance
welcomed the guests.
Elaine Mitchell read and
gave the devotional.
Joe McMillen provided
the program by performing magic tricks, asking
biblical questions and
making balloon animals.
The next meeting will
be May 10 at 6:30 p.m. at
the church.

2012
SPRING

Join In The Parade

Open House:
Meet the staff, check out our facility and sign up for classes.

thy Depp, of Bellbrook;
Stephanie and Timothy
Temelkoff, of Hilliard;
and Dr. Jennifer Hoying,
of Indianapolis. They
have six grandchildren.

RUSSIA — Deidre
Rosenbeck, of Russia, and
Troy Grieshop, of Fort Recovery, have announced
their engagement and
plans to marry June 2,
2012, in St. Remy Catholic
Church in Russia.
The bride-to-be is the
daughter of Vern and
Karen Rosenbeck, of Russia. She graduated from
Russia High School in
2007 and from University
of Cincinnati in 2011. She
is employed by Jay School
Corp. as a sixth-grade special education teacher.
Her fiance is the son of
Mike
and
Brenda
Grieshop, of Fort Recovery.
He is a 2004 graduate
of Fort Recovery High
School and a 2006 graduate of Wright State University Lake Campus.
He is employed by
J&M Manufacturing.

NEW BREMEN —
The first annual Artisan
Showcase in New Bremen
will take place Sept. 29.
Deadline for entry is May
1.
The showcase will
highlight artisans who
create jewelry, art, clothes,
photography, blown glass,
sculptures and more. The
Artisan Showcase will
take place simultaneously
with the New Bremen
Pumpkinfest.
A 10-foot by 10-foot
space costs $50. Apply before May 1 and a $10 application fee will be
credited toward the purchase of the space.
Taking place at the
Crown Pavilion along the
banks of the Miami and
Erie Canal in New Bremen, Pumpkinfest is a
family-friendly event that
features activities, pumpkins, beverages, food, a variety
of
children’s
activities and more.
To receive an application, contact Holly Bertke
at (419) 629-3396 or email
pumpkinfestartisanshowcase@gmail.com.

United Tumbling Academy offers tumbling and cheer classes for all ages and skill levels.
Parent-Tot-Tumble • Tumble 1-5 • Cheer United • Private Lessons
Flexibility/Endurance Class • Open Gyms and Clinics • High School Cheer Squad Practices
Customized Choreography Camps
United All-Stars
Please bring a small wallet size photo
Competitive Cheer Squad Tryouts
of your child to tryouts. United All Star
We have a spot for everyone! No tryout fee!
Packets will be available at the open
house. If you are unable to attend
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
tryouts please contact us to set up a
Ages 8 and under: 5:30pm-6:30pm
personal tryout.
Ages 9-11: 7:00pm-8:30pm
Parent Meeting for All Stars
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
(Ages as of
Friday, May 4th, 2012 at 7:00pm
Ages
12-14:
5:00pm-6:30pm
August 21, 2012)
Squads will be posted prior to parent meeting.
Ages 15-18: 7:00pm-8:30pm

New Choices has announced “Celebrate New
Life with Laughter” as
the theme for its annual
fundraiser.
Sheriff John Lenhart
will be master of ceremonies for the event at
the Palazzo in Botkins
on May 5 beginning at 7
p.m.
It will feature drinks,
dinner, comedians from
The Funny Bone, silent
auctions, a live auction, a
50/50 raffle and a bonus
raffle.
Tickets are $25 each
or two for $45 and must
be purchased in advance
by calling 498-7261 or by
sending a check for the
number of tickets to New
Choices, P. O. Box 4182,
Sidney, OH 45365. Tickets will be mailed upon
receipt of payment.
The silent and live
auctions, hosted by
Justin and Abby Vondenhuevel, include Dragons
tickets, a trip to Walt
Disney World including
park hopper passes and
hotel, a Baltimore weekend getaway package, a
Cedar Point/Put-in-Bay
package, an Inn at Versailles sweetheart package.
Also Calloway golf
bag and clubs, a snowboard and vouchers to
Perfect North Slopes, an
American Girl doll, a
tennis package, box
seats for a Reds game, a
guitar autographed by
Julianne Hough of “Footloose” and “Dancing with
the Stars,” a grilling
package and other items.
The fundraiser is
sponsored in part by Dr.
Lisa Alvetro, Hydro Aluminum, Wells Brothers,
and Thermoseal.
For almost 30 years,
New Choices has served

In Municipal Court
Mary
E.
Tuesday,
Hartwick, 27, of Troy, was
fined $100 and costs and
sentenced to 30 days in
jail on a domestic violence
charge that was amended
to disorderly conduct. She
was also fined $150 and
costs and sentenced to 60
days in jail for obstructing
official business. The court
suspended 15 days of the
jail time and she may also
complete an anger/rage
program in lieu of 15 days
jail and be evaluated for
drug and alcohol abuse
and mental health purposes in lieu of 30 days. An
additional 30 days jail
may be reconsidered if
fines and costs are paid in
full.
• Ronald L. St. Myers
Jr., 19, 213 Elizabeth
Drive, Russia, was fined
$150 and costs and sentenced to 30 days in jail on
a criminal trespassing
charge. He will be permitted to complete 40 hours
of community service in
lieu of 10 days jail and be
evaluated for drug/alcohol
abuse in lieu of 10 days
jail. The balance of the
sentence may be reconsidered if fines and costs are
paid in full.
• Taylor M. Olding, 20,
at large, was sentenced to
15 days in jail for probation violations in falsification and drug abuse cases.
He will receive credit for
one day served.
• Brittany D. Creekmore, 22, 610 N. West
Ave., was fined $375 and
costs, sentenced to five
days in jail and her driver’s license was suspended for six months for
failing a blood-alcohol
breath test. Jail may be
reconsidered if she completes an alcohol-intervention program and pays
fines and costs in full.
• Mack L. Cooks, 64, of
Lima, was fined $250 and
costs and sentenced to
eight days in jail for driving while under suspension from a previous DUI
conviction. Five days of
the jail sentence may be
reconsidered if fines and
costs are paid in full.
Civil cases
Lima Radiological Associates v. Willis and

MUNICIPAL COURT
In Sidney Municipal
Court Wednesday morning, Judge Duane Goettemoeller fined Regina A.
Elson, 36, 635 Linden
Ave., $75 and costs on a
paraphernalia
drug
charge that was amended
to disorderly conduct.
• Crystal M. Patterson,
26, 109 N. Mill St.,
Botkins, was fined $150
and costs and sentenced
to 10 days in jail for permitting a dangerous dog
to run at large. Jail may
be reconsidered if fines
and costs are paid in full
and all requirements necessary to keep such a dog
are maintained.
• Joshua E. Miller, 37,
6817 State Route 66, Fort
Loramie, was fined $50
and costs and sentenced
to 30 days in jail on a
charge of inducing panic.
The court suspended 25
days of the sentence and if
fines and costs are paid,
five days may be reconsidered.
• Jesse White, 23, 600
N. Main Ave., was fined
$250 and costs and sentenced to 30 days in jail on
a child endangering
charge that was amended
to disorderly conduct. Five
days of the sentence may
be reconsidered if fines
and costs are paid in full.
He was also fined $75 and
costs for driving while
under restrictions.
• David W. Slife, 25,
610 N. Main Ave., was
sentenced to 45 days in
jail and 22 days previously ordered for probation
violations
and
contempt of court in theft
and drug abuse cases and
also sentenced to 30 days
for contempt of court. For
a probation violation in an
open-burning case, he was
also sentenced to 25 days
in jail previously ordered.
• Robert F. Hollinger,
51, 726 Wapakoneta Ave.,
was sentenced to four
days in jail previously ordered and 30 days for contempt of court in a
domestic violence case.
Fifteen days of the first
sentence may be reconsidered if fines and costs are
paid in full.
• Jason L. Bryce, 21,
2345 Collins Ave., Apt. L,
was fined $250 and costs

and sentenced to eight
days in jail for a drug
paraphernalia offense and
also sentenced to 30 days
in jail for contempt of
court. His driver’s license
was also suspended for six
months. If fines and costs
are paid in full, five days
jail may be reconsidered.
• Ian Shatto, 30, 315
East Ave., was fined $150
and costs and sentenced
to 30 days in jail on an assault charge. He will be
permitted to complete an
anger/rage program in
lieu of five days jail, continue and complete counseling and attend AA
meetings in lieu of 10 days
jail. If fines and costs are
paid in full, the balance of
the sentence may be reconsidered.
•
Christopher
D.
Weaver, 23, 114 Liberty
St., Quincy, was fined
$1,000 and costs and sentenced to 15 days in jail on
a drug abuse charge. The
court suspended $850 of
the fine and he will be
permitted to complete
counseling in lieu of 10
days jail. If fines and costs
are paid in full, five days
jail may be reconsidered.
• Kimberly K. Wall, 45,
3094
Thompson-Schiff
Road, was fined $75 and
costs and sentenced to 10
days in jail on a criminal
damaging charge. Five
days of the sentence will
be suspended if she completes counseling and the
balance of the sentence
may be reconsidered if she
pays fines and costs in
full.
• Nathan D. Alexander,
26, 627 State Route 708,
Russells Point, was fined
$150 and costs and sentenced to 30 days in jail on
a drug paraphernalia
charge. Five days of the
sentence may be reconsidered if fines and costs are
paid in full.
• Probation violation
charges in theft and driving while under restrictions
cases
against
Brandy J. Blankenship
were dismissed by the
court.
• Michael E. Cline, 57,
12093 State Route 362,
Minster, was fined $250
and costs and sentenced
to 11 days in jail on a

charge of failing a bloodalcohol test that was
amended to reckless operation. His driver’s license
was suspended for six
months. He was also fined
$30 for a seatbelt violation
and $25 for failing to drive
in marked lanes.
• Gregory R. Rhoads,
48, 211 E. North St., was
fined $375 and costs, sentenced to six months in
jail and his driver’s license
was suspended for six
months for failing a bloodalcohol breath test. He
may be evaluated for
drug/alcohol abuse in lieu
of five days jail and if he
completes an alcohol-intervention program and
pays fines
and costs
in full, five days jail may
be reconsidered.
• Jay A. Moon, 31, of
Canton, was fined $375
and costs, sentenced to
five days in jail and his
driver’s license was suspended for six months for
failing a blood-alcohol
breath test. Jail may be
reconsidered if he completes an alcohol-intervention program and pays
fines and costs in full. He
was also fined $25 and
costs for driving without
headlights.
• Danny W. Moses, 53,
4662 Hardin-Wapakoneta
Road, was fined $150 and
costs and sentenced to
eight days in jail on a
charge of driving while
under suspension. Five
days of the sentence may
be reconsidered if fines
and costs are paid in full.
• Donnie R. King, 34,
7711 S. Knoop-Johnston
Road, was fined $150 and
costs and sentenced to five
days in jail for driving
while under restrictions,
Jail may be reconsidered
if fines and costs are paid
in full.
• Marvin D. Thomas,
29, of Piqua, was fined $75
and costs on a charge of
failing to reinstate a license that was amended
to failure to display a license.
• Jennifer L. Beal, 29,
of Cincinnati, was fined
$75 and costs on a driving
while under suspension
charge that was amended
to failure to display a license.

RUSSIA/HOUSTON
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Friday, April 27, 2012

Contact Russia/Houston
reporter Terry Pellman
with story ideas by phone
at (937) 492-0032; email,
tpellman@woh.rr.com;
or by fax, (937) 498-5991.

Summer reading program
available for Russia 3rd-graders
Ball

Bremigan

A. Drees

R. Drees

McEldowney

Monnin

Rittenhouse

Wallace

Russia promgoers
to sail off to
Treasure Island
RUSSIA — Russia
School’s
junior/senior
prom will be May 5, beginning with a banquet
at St. Remy Hall at 6:30
p.m. Speeches will follow
the dinner, then crowning of the king and
queen about 7:45 p.m.
The dance will be from
8:15 to 11:30 p.m. with
the theme “A Night on
Treasure Island.”
After-prom festivities
will also be at St. Remy
Hall from midnight to
2:30 a.m. with prizes for
students in attendance.
Queen candidates are

Lindsay Ball, daughter
of Rick and Connie Ball;
Abby Drees, daughter of
Mike and Carla Drees;
Macy Monnin, daughter
of Jeff and Gina Monnin;
and Whitney Wallace,
daughter of Danielle
Huntwork.
King candidates are
Corey Bremigan, son of
Paul and Joyce Bremigan; Ryan Drees, son of
Mark and Cheryl Drees;
Colyn McEldowney, son
of Craig and Connie
McEldowney; and Bryce
Rittenhouse, son of Mark
and Lori Rittenhouse.

All-stars win 3rd
at national event
HOUSTON — On
March 31 and April 1,
the Untamed All-stars
senior level 3 cheer team
scored a third-place finish at the American Superstarz National Cheer
and Dance Competition
in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
More than 400 teams
from all over the country
competed in the two-day
event held at the Myrtle
Beach Convention Center.
The Untamed Allstars finished in third
place,
winning
the
bronze medal. In addition to the third-place
finish, the team also
scored the overall highest in their division on
both days of the competition in both standing
and running tumbling,
as well as the jump division.
Also during the award
ceremony, six of these
cheerleaders
were
named to the All-American Cheer Team and
were invited to cheer at
the 2013 Pro Bowl

REAL

Game. The six girls invited were Olivia Seving,
of Sidney; Abby Moles, of
Marion Local; Kassidy
Broaddrick, of Fort Loramie; Alli Comstock of
Piqua; Natalie Snyder, of
Covington; and Jamie
Cox, of Mississinawa
Valley.
While at the Pro
Bowl, these girls will
have the opportunity to
compete individually in
the AACD National
Scholarship Invitational,
where they can earn
thousands of dollars in
college
scholarship
money.
The Untamed Allstars are based out of the
Cheer Barn in Houston,
which is owned and operated by Bev Kauffman.
The team is taking
the month of April off
and begins working on
next year’s routine in
May.
Anyone interested in
becoming an All-star
member may contact
cheerbarn@aol.com for
more information.

ESTATE TRANSFERS

The real estate transfers listed below have
been recorded at the office of Shelby County
Recorder Jodi L. Siegel.
Transfers listed also
include tax-exempt property transfers in which
no dollar amount is
listed. Shelby County
Auditor Denny York said
the exemptions normally
involve
transactions
within a family and
therefore no public
record of the dollar
amount is recorded.
Loramie Township
Gariety Family Limited Partnership to
Diane M. Siegrist, Dennis L. Gariety and Darlene A. Monnin, section
23, part southwest 1/4,
57.987 acres; section 22,
part east 1/2 northeast
1/4, 81.167 acres; exempt.
Dennis L. Gariety to

RUSSIA — Kids Read
Now, the new technology-based summer reading
program,
has
announced a partnership with Russia Local
School for summer 2012.
Targeted at students
completing third grade,
Kids Read Now aims to
stop the loss of education
over summer and raise
reading scores through
technology, free books
and other motivational
tools for children and
their parents.
Kids Read Now uses
phone and text messaging through founding
sponsor One Call Now —
the nation’s largest
voice, text and email notification provider based
in Troy. Students will
start summer with three
free books from their
personal wish lists and
will receive additional
books over the summer
as they log reading time

using their phone touchpad. Weekly reminder
calls will motivate children to read, and keep
students and their families focused on reading
all summer long.
“Russia Local School
is proud to partner with
Kids Read Now as a
means of supporting our
students to continue
reading through the
summer,” said Nick
Wilker, principal at Russia Local School. “We
know and research
proves that through the
summer months not all
of our students read at
the same pace they do
through the school year.
Through this program,
we hope to provide that
spark that will keep our
students at a high pace
of reading during the
summer months preventing the summer
slide into the following
school year.”

This is the second
year for Kids Read Now,
which completed a pilot
program in Troy City
School district in 2011,
achieving a 10.4 percent
boost in end-of-summer
reading scores for third
graders. Plans for 2012
include expanding Kids
Read Now to 5,000 children in 75 schools — 40
schools throughout the
Miami Valley area and
35 schools in New York
City, Georgia, Texas and
California.
In 2011, the One
Call Now Foundation
earmarked $1 million for Kids Read
Now, providing seed
money for at least
five years of supFuture
port.
growth depends
on investments
from other corporations,
grants, foundations and local

Teachers, citizens honored
HOUSTON — Recently, the Hardin-Houston Local School District
held its annual staff appreciation banquet.
About 80 employees
and guests attended the
event, which was held at
the Houston Community
Center.
Several people were
recognized during the
evening.
Superintendent Larry
Claypool presented the
School
Community
Award to Eric and
Michelle Garber.
The Hardin Houston
Education Association,
along with Claypool,
recognized retiring eleteachers
mentary
Karen Gariety and
Bertie Ely. The Golden
Apple Awards were presented to Michelle Fos-

Allen

Bowers

Eric and Michelle Garber
ter at Hardin-Houston
Elementary and Brad
Allen at Houston High
School.

Foster

The Hardin-Houston
Local Teacher of the Year
was presented to secondgrade teacher Melissa
Bowers.
Elementary Principal
Sara Roseberry, High
School Principal Ryan
Maier and Claypool recognized several employees for their years of
service to Hardin-Houston School.
awards
First-year
were given to Brad

Church women elect officers
ORAN — The Oran Christian
Church Women elected officers
for 2012-13 during their April
meeting.
Elected president was Judy
McCorkle; vice president, Rosemary Knouff; secretary, Amy
Ayers; treasurer, Joni Robinson.
Elected to the Cheer Committee

were Carol Wolaver and Kathy
Borland and to the Social Committee were Knouff and McCorkle.
The group discussed plans for
a mother/daughter banquet May
9.
It was announced that the
summer Bible school will be June

12-14, and the theme will be “The
High Seas.”
The program for the meeting was an auction, with Steve
Knouff serving as the auctioneer. Joni Robinson closed the
meeting with prayer, and
Joyce Biza served as the hostess.

‘Evening of
Wellness’
planned
NEW BREMEN — The
Southwestern
Auglaize
County Chamber of Commerce invites the community to “An Evening of
Wellness” presented by
Chamber members Marge
Schmitmeyer and Grand
Lake Health System.
The free, informational
meeting will take place
Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the
upstairs meeting room of
the Lockkeeper’s House.
Attendees will learn
how to improve their own
health and the health of
their families by strengthening their immune systems, reducing the risk of
cancer, heart disease and
other degenerative diseases, and creating better
health through good nutrition. People will learn how
to add more fruits and vegetables to their diet
through Juice Plus+.
Grand Lake Health System will be on hand to provide free Cholestych and
blood pressure checks. Visit
www.auglaize.org for details.

Senior
supper set
ST. MARYS — Joint
Township District Memorial Hospital will present
its Senior Supper Hour
program on Thursday at
U.S.W. Local 200 Union
Hall.
Dinner will begin at 5
p.m. and the program will
follow at 5:45 p.m. The entertainment for this month
will be Spittin Image.
A free blood pressure
clinic from 4 to 5 p.m. will
precede dinner.
For more information
about the Senior Supper
Hour program, contact
Anne Larger at (419) 3943335, ext. 1128.

Realtor
recognized
Larry Oberdorf Jr., with
the Real Living Realty
Services office in Sidney,
has been awarded the Seniors Real Estate Specialist
(SRES) designation by the
Seniors Real Estate Specialist Council of the National
Association
of
REALTORS (NAR).
Oberdorf joins more
than 16,000 real estate
professionals in North
America who have earned
the SRES designation. All
were required to successfully complete a comprehensive
course
in
understanding the needs,
considerations and goals of
real estate buyers and sellers age 55 and older.

Workshop on
buying, selling
business
offered
PIQUA — The time of a
free Buying/Selling a Business Workshop at the
Small Business Development Center at Edison
Community College on
Thursday
has
been
changed. The workshop
now will be from 6:30 to
8:30 p.m.
This workshop will be
held in Room 057 at the
Edison Community College
main campus, 1973 Edison
Drive. For further information or to register, contact
the Edison SBDC at (937)
381-1525.

Contact Executive Editor Jeff
Billiel with story ideas by phone at
(937) 498-5962; email,
jbilliel@sdnccg.com; or
by fax, (937) 498-5991.

Life-saving screening made
mandatory at Wilson
BY PATRICIA ANN
SPEELMAN
pspeelman@sdnccg.com
When Devin Stuttler was
born on Oct. 29, 2007, at Wilson Memorial Hospital, he
arrived as the second child of
Tara and Alan Stuttler, of
Wapakoneta.
He looked like a healthy
baby, and there were no complications in the birth. Because he was a second child,
and hospital staff had no objections, Tara was preparing
to take him home 18 hours
after his birth, earlier than
most releases. A nurse carried Devin away for a photograph. In the photograph, his
color didn’t look right. The
nurse took several photos,
but the problem didn’t seem
to be in the camera. So, just
to be safe, she gave Devin a
pulse oximetry screening test
— and stopped getting him
ready to go home.
Known as a pulse ox
screen, for short, the test is a
noninvasive one. It involves
attaching a light probe to a
newborn’s right hand and either foot. The light meter
reads the amount of oxygen
in the baby’s blood, and that
reading indicates whether a
baby has congenital heart defects.
In Devin’s case, the nurse
discovered that his color was
off because he had only half a
heart. Without the test, no
one would have known, and
Devin would have died
within a few days.
Now, he is a happy,
healthy 4 1/2-year-old. And
Tara is an activist and grassroots lobbyist for mandating
pulse ox screens by law.
In the Copeland-Emerson
Family Birth Center at Wilson, doctors approved a proposal by staff nurses to make
the test routine. The practice
began April 1.
“The American Academy of
Pediatrics presented an article in October 2011 advocating that all babies be
screened prior to discharge,”
said Jana Schnippel, staff
nurse specialist at the center.
“Carmen Bowling, the center
director, and I got the article
and presented it to the pediatricians. They all agreed. I
developed a procedure for it,
and it’s a standing order
now.”
The probe is done when a
baby is 24 hours old. There
have been no failures at Wilson among the 44 babies
born (as of press time) since
April 1.
According to Bowling,
adding the test to the routine
procedures at the birth center has had no budgetary impact. The hospital already
owned the necessary equipment, and the test required
no addition of staff. Current
staff were trained for the test
during a regular staff meeting. And there is not much of
an additional cost to patients.
“There’s only a charge for
the probe itself, which is less
than $2,” Bowling said.
Tara and Tina Walp, also
of Wapakoneta, founded
Pulse Ox Ohio and have
been pushing Ohio legislators to make it a law for all

SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg

NURSE JENNIFER Goubeaux (left), of Fort Loramie, looks at a pulse oximeter attached to infant Amelia Middleton while Amelia’s mom Britnie Middleton, of Sidney, watches at Wilson
Tuesday. Amelia also is the daughter of Seth Middleton.

SDN Photo/Luke Gronneberg

DEVIN STUTTLER, 4, of Wapakoneta, gets a push from his
mom Tara Stuttler in their back yard Tuesday. Devin also is
the son of Alan Stuttler.
Ohio hospitals to institute
pulse ox screens. They work
with professional lobbyists
with the American Heart Association.
Schnippel said she is a
“huge advocate. I think if we
can save a baby’s life, we
need to screen them before
they go home.”
The state of Indiana recently passed such legislation and Bowling expects
that Ohio will do so soon.
“If our neighbor could do
it, we could,” Tara said.
After Devin’s test, he underwent three surgeries at
Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus. If babies at
Wilson don’t pass the pulse
ox screen, they are referred
to a pediatric cardiologist at
Dayton Children’s. Devin was
sent there, and then his par-

ents transferred him to the
Columbus facility.
“We had more options for
treatment in Columbus that
we did at Dayton’s,” Tara
said. Devin underwent surgery when he was 1 week old,
when he was 5 months old
and when he was 2 years old.
Surgeons placed stents in his
heart and used angioplasty
to knock out the walls between the heart’s chambers.
He takes Coumadin to prevent blood clots and his
mother gives him fingerprick blood tests at home
about once a month.
“You would never know he
had a heart problem,” she
said. “He’s a social butterfly.
He’s a very happy little guy.”
The Stuttlers asked their
doctors why Devin was born
with half a heart, a condition

referred to as CHD. They
wanted to know if it was because they had been exposed
to something unsafe during
Tara’s pregnancy. Doctors
told them there was nothing
they could have done to prevent it. About 1 percent of
babies born in the U.S. (8 of
1,000) have CHD, some
40,000 per year.
When the opportunity
arose to participate in a
study of genetic testing by
the Ohio State University
Heart and Lung Institute,
Tara signed up the Stuttlers.
The study looks for congenital connections regarding
heart disease.
Tara also has become an
active online lobbyist. She
blogs regularly and volunteers for the central Ohio
chapter of Mended Little
Hearts, a nonprofit that supports families who deal with
heart problems in their children. She manages Web
pages, something she also
does in her day job as an account manager for NOW
Marketing Group, of Lima.
Alan works in technical
support at Plastipak. Their
other children are Craig, 8,
and Jude, 1.
“I created the blog so people could see what I was seeing and doing at the time
(Devin was undergoing treatment),” Tara said. “You realize you don’t want anyone to
go through that. Or if they
do, that they’re not alone.
People can call and write
their local hospitals if they
haven’t implemented pulse
ox screens.
They can write their legislators.
“If you know someone
who is expecting, be sure to
push for your newborn to receive a pulse ox screen before discharge. It costs about
the same as a hospital diaper change, and it looks like
a little Band-Aid with a
light on it that is put on the
newborn’s toe and takes seconds to do. Every hospital
nursery is equipped with
one. Don’t let your newborn
leave the hospital without
this life-saving screen. If
they deny you this test, keep
pushing.”

Historical society holds annual meeting
NEW KNOXVILLE — The
New Knoxville Historical Society held its annual meeting on
April 19. After a brief business
meeting, Rachel Barber from
the Auglaize County Historical
Society informed members
about a workshop, Gravestones
for Novices, to be held on June
9, in New Knoxville at the German Reformed Cemetery.
Lana Bizet, a New Knoxville

eighth-grader and Girl Scout,
shared with the members her
research on the history of the
Girl Scouts in New Knoxville.
Lana’s research was done as a
requirement for the Silver Girl
Scout award. Several members
added comments on their experiences being Girl Scouts in the
1950s.
Myron Fledderjohann and
Roberta Tanzini talked about

the books that are in the Heritage Center’s library and were
written by New Knoxville natives. After the meeting refreshments were served while the
members visited and looked at
the many recently acquired museum items on display. All five
buildings of the Heritage Center
will be open for the public on
the last Sunday of the months
May through October.

To purchase photographs appearing in the Sidney Daily News, go to www.sidneydailynews.com

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LOCAL NEWS

Sidney Daily News, Friday, April 27, 2012

Nobody likes a ‘nark’
nius. — Brad, Toledo,
Ohio.
BRAD: Your parents
are doing their best to
motivate you to excel in
math, but they are putting undue pressure on
you to excel when it may
not be possible for you.
I’m sure they are proud
of
your
academic
achievements but are
negligent in not sharing
this pride with you.
Do your best not to let
this pressure get to you.
You know you are doing
your very best in math
and that is the most important. Speak with
your
counselor
or
teacher and ask for a
parent conference to put
things into perspective.
Many times parents will
realize the mistake they
are making when a
teacher or counselor enlightens them.
Your grades indicate
that you are a terrific
student. Keep up the
good work!

ily and loved
DR.
WALones. I advised
LACE: I’m terthe girl to inr i b l y
form her pardisappointed
ents about her
that you told a
brother’s alcogirl to “nark” on
hol consumpher brother just
because
she
tion
because
she said she
caught him and
a few friends
’Tween loves him and
doesn’t
want
drinking beer at
a party. That’s 12 & 20 any harm to
Dr. Robert
come to him.
really no big
Wallace
Telling the pardeal. Maybe he
ents is the only
was just having
a few sips to find out thing to do.
what beer tasted like.
DR. WALLACE: I’m
Aren’t you aware that
teens go through a pe- a very good student, and
riod of experimenting I get A’s in all of my
with a lot of different classes except math. I’m
an honor student, but
things?
I’ve had a few beers my only weakness is in
myself and decided I did- math. Try as I might, I
n’t like the taste, so I can never get anything
have never tried it again. but a B in math. In every
I think that “narking” is math class I’ve ever
a worse crime than taken (algebra, geometry
drinking a beer. Nobody, and trigonometry), I albut nobody, likes or re- ways wind up with a B.
When my parents
spects a nark. Please reconsider your answer. were in high school, they
It’s never right to nark were math geniuses, so
on a sibling — never! — they cannot understand
why I cannot get an A in
Shelly, Pittsburgh, Pa.
SHELLY: Would you math. I really think they
inform your parents if are disappointed that I
you knew your brother won’t be valedictorian.
was experimenting with Instead of praising me
cocaine? What if he had for all my A’s, they moan
a loaded gun in his pos- about my B’s in math.
session? Would you tell I’ve told them to back off,
your parents? You would but they keep pressuring
be making a huge mis- me to do better in math.
This really frustrates me
take if you didn’t.
Alcohol is highly ad- because I’m doing my
dictive and has caused best already. Please tell
an enormous amount of me what I can do to get
trouble for the drinker, them to accept the fact
as well as his or her fam- that I am not a math ge-

Dr. Robert Wallace
welcomes questions from
readers. Although he is
unable to reply to all of
them individually, he
will answer as many as
possible in this column.
Email him at rwallace@galesburg.net. To
find out more about Dr.
Robert Wallace and read
features by other Creators Syndicate writers
and cartoonists, visit the
Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22 to Jan. 19)
Focus on bills, shared
property, inheritances
and red-tape details
with insurance matters.
Spend at least 30 minutes trying to sort some
of this out.
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 20 to Feb. 18)
Today, the only Moon
directly opposite your
sign all month is taking
place. That’s why you’ll
be focused on partnerships and friendships
more than usual. Be prepared to go more than
halfway.
PISCES
(Feb. 19 to March 20)
You have a strong desire to get better organized today. Therefore, act
on this urge! Make a todo list.
YOU BORN TODAY
You are steadfast, courageous and loyal. You
don’t give up in difficult
situations. You also fight
for what is right. You’re
verbally adroit and an
excellent negotiator. You
take pride in your appearance and always
look good. You’re an excellent friend and companion. This year an
exciting new cycle begins
for you. Get ready to
open any door!
Birthdate of: Jessica
Alba, actress; Alice Waters, chef/author; Ian
Rankin, writer.

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or

BY FRANCIS DRAKE something you own. You
What kind of day will want to get a better hantomorrow be? To find out dle on your stuff.
what the stars say, read
LEO
the forecast given for (July 23 to Aug. 22)
your birth sign.
The Moon is in your
sign today, which means
For Saturday, April you’re a bit luckier than
28, 2012
all the other signs. However, you also might be a
ARIES
bit more emotional. (No
(March 21 to April 19) worries.)
Today the Moon is in
VIRGO
your fellow fire sign, Leo, (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22)
so the day just gets betYou’ll be happy workter as it wears on. This is ing behind the scenes or
a great day for sports, working alone today, beplayful activities with cause you feel the need
children, the arts, the for privacy and peace
world and quiet. Any kind of
entertainment
and, of course, love and study will appeal to you.
romance!
LIBRA
TAURUS
(Sept. 23 to Oct. 22)
(April 20 to May 20)
A confidential discusYou feel a bit down sion with a friend or perhome today, which is haps a member of a
why you’ll enjoy relaxing group could be meaningat home or spending ful to you today. Or vice
time with family mem- versa; possibly, someone
bers. Memories of your else needs to confide in
youth could be part of you.
the picture.
SCORPIO
GEMINI
(Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)
(May 21 to June 20)
You will be noticed
A busy day full of briefly
by
parents,
short trips, errands, read- bosses, VIPs and pering and writing. You’ll haps even the police
enjoy time chatting with today. Be aware of this.
siblings and neighbors. Be on your best behavior.
Yada yada yada.
SAGITTARIUS
CANCER
(Nov. 22 to Dec. 21)
(June 21 to July 22)
Shake it up a little
Today your focus goes today. Do something difto your cash flow, earnings ferent. Go someplace
and your sense of self- you’ve never been before
worth. You might be busy to give yourself the thrill
maintaining or cleaning of adventure.

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They were presented
during the Operational
Excellence Symposium
in Aliso Viejo, Calif.,
April 24.
Accepting the awards
were Kristy Earick, executive director, and Dana
Spurlock, director of
nursing. The facility was
selected from among 24
skilled nursing facilities
in the Midwest.
To qualify for the
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clinical
standards, positive federal and state survey
outcomes, low turnover
and positive employee
relations, and exceeding
accounts
receivable
guidelines. The facility
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TODAY
IN HISTORY CROSSWORD
HOROSCOPE
Friday, April 27, 2012
Today
is Friday,
April
27,
Your
imprint
is likely to
be more
the
118th
widely
felt inday
the of
year2012.
ahead There
than it
ever248
was days
in the left
past, in
mostly
are
thebecause
year.
you’ll
have your
fingers in
new
Today’s
Highlight
inmany
History:
pies. Success is now possible in areas
April
27, 2011,
powerOn you
where
previously
met with
disapful
tornadoes raked the
pointment.
TAURUS
(April
20-May 20)Accord— Don’t
South
and
Midwest.
waitto
for the
othersNational
to put a fun activity
toing
Oceanic
gether, be the one who initiates good
and
Atmospheric
times.
If you do, thisAdministracan be an exmore
thanday.
120 twisters
tion,
tremely
enjoyable
GEMINI (May
21-June
20) —
Those
resulted
in 316
deaths
across
who loveofyou Mississippi,
are likely to do allAlathey
parts
can to help satisfy both your material
bama,
Tennessee,
Virginia
and emotional
interests as
unobtruand
Georgia.
sively
as possible. Show your appreciation.
On this date:
CANCER
(June 21-July
22) — It’s exone
■ In 1521,
Portuguese
of those rare days where some of your
plorer
Ferdinand
Magellan
more expansive
hopes have
betterwas
killed by
natives
ingratithe
than-average
chances
of being
fied. Be optimistic about the outcome
Philippines.
of ■
events.
In 1777, the only land
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Don’t sit
battle
Connecticut
around in
waiting
for somethingduring
good to
the
Revolutionary
War,
the
happen.
If you get on things
immediately and of
strike
while the iron is
hot,
Battle
Ridgefield,
took
you canresulting
realize some in
gangbusters
opplace,
a
limited
portunities.
British
victory.
VIRGO (Aug.
23-Sept. 22) — Forget
■ In
during
about
all1805,
the petty
things the
goingFirst
on in
your life and
focus
energies and
Barbary
War,
anyour
American-led
efforts on endeavors that are near and
force
of Marines and mercedear to you. When you do, life can be
naries
captured
the city of
pretty darn
great.
Derna,
on the
shores
ofCollective
Tripoli.
LIBRA (Sept.
23-Oct.
23) —
endeavors
look extremely
promising
■ In 1822,
the 18th
presiat this point in time. Check to see if
dent
of
the
United
States,
there is room for you in a coalition
Ulysses
S. Grant,
was born
in
that is engaged
in something
interestPoint
ing. Pleasant, Ohio.
SCORPIO
24-Nov.
— One of
■ In (Oct.
1865,
the22)steamer
your better assets is your knack for
Sultana
exploded
on
the
Misencouraging people to get together to
sissippi
near
work on aRiver
common
goal. Memphis,
Instinctively
Tenn.,
killing
morebe part
than
you will know
who should
of
this effort.
1,400
people, mostly freed
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — If
Union
prisoners of war.
you’ve been considering making a
■ In
1932,
poet
major
change
thatAmerican
you believe would
Hart
Crane,
drowned
better your
working32,
conditions,
now’s
the day
to implement
will
after
jumping
fromit.a Delay
steamer
only dull your fervor.
into
the
Gulf
of
Mexico
while
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) —
en
route
New York.
Trust
yourtoinstincts,
common sense
■ good
In 1941,
German
forces
and
judgment.
Snap decisions
could actuallyAthens
turn out to be
better
occupied
during
than those over which you ponder for
World
War
II.
some time.
■ In 1967,
Expo
‘67
ofAQUARIUS
(Jan.
20-Feb.
19)was
— Timficially
opened
in important
Montreal
by
ing can be
extremely
in situations wherePrime
you are trying
to put
Canadian
Minister
togetherB.
some
kind of deal. Don’t presLester
Pearson.
ent your case without having all your
■
In
1972,
16 misducks in a row,the
andApollo
don’t delay
the
sion
to the moon
safely.
arrangement
of saidended
quackers,
either.
PISCES
(Feb. 20-March
— DiYou
■ In 1973,
Acting20)
FBI
might
not
have
any
fresh
ideas
yourrector L. Patrick Gray reself, but there will be no one better
signed
it wasupon
revealed
than youafter
for improving
the inthat
he’dofdestroyed
renovations
others. You’ll files
know how
to polishfrom
up whatthe
theysafe
envision.
moved
of WaARIES (March
21-April 19) — This
tergate
conspirator
E.
could be one of your better days, with
Howard
Hunt.
everything going well. The happiest
■ In 1982,
the
of John
surprise,
however,
willtrial
be running
into
excellent
bargains
everything
you
W.
Hinckley
Jr.,for
who
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OF THE

PAST

100 Years

Today

Tonight

Mostly
sunny
High: 55°

Saturday

Mostly
cloudy,
50%
chance
of rain
Low: 40°

REGIONAL

Sunday

Rain
likely
High: 48°
Low: 35°

Monday

Partly
cloudy
High: 58°
Low: 43°

Mostly
cloudy.
30%
chance
of rain
High: 65°
Low: 53°

Tuesday

Mostly
cloudy,
30%
chance of
rain,
t-storms
High: 73°
Low: 58°

Wednesday

LOCAL OUTLOOK

Rain all day
Saturday

Partly
cloudy,
30%
chance of
rain,
t-storms
High: 75°
Low: 58°

The next shot of rain
is tonight and through
the day Satu r d a y.
Temperatures
will be
w e l l
below
normal
on Saturday. Dry weather
should return on Sunday
with more sun after
some morning clouds.

Source: The Sidney Wastewater Treatment Plant, official weather reporting station for
Shelby County, and the U.S. Naval Observatory. For current daytime conditions, low/high
temperatures, go to AccuWeather.com.

Pacific disturbances will fuel more wet weather in the Northwest
and parts of the Central Great Basin. Energy ejecting out of the
West will kick up strong and possibly severe storms in parts of the
Midwest. Active weather will extend into the Mid-Atlantic.

Donohue, 0; readers, 100
DEAR DR.
correction now.
DONOHUE:
M e d i c a l
Wow! I have
schools — and
reading
been
each state has at
your column for
least one — will
years and was
gladly accept the
shocked at your
donation of the
answer to D.C.’s
body for scienquestion about
tific investigaleaving her body To your tion and for the
to science. Your
instruction
of
good
response was to
medical schools.
rant about organ health
Life
Quest
donation, a won- Dr. Paul G. Whole Body to
derful idea, but
Science is an orDonohue
hello … You can
ganization that
find many websites that will fulfill the request
you could have recom- any person has to donate
mended. — C.J.
his or her body to sciANSWER: C.J. and ence. You can phone 866about 100 others wrote to 799-2300 or visit the
tell me that I completely organization online at
misunderstood
the www.lifequestanatomiwriter’s question. D.C. cal.com. Another organiwanted to “donate her zation is the Anatomy
body to science.” I took it Gifts Registry, whose
she wanted to donate her toll-free number is 800organs for transplanta- 300-LIFE. These are but
tion. Let me make the two examples of institu-

tions that are happy to
take care of the costs involved and fulfilling the
requirements demanded
in giving one’s body for
scientific investigation.
Do I really rant?
DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Enclosed are
pages from a magazine
devoted to dog care. In
the article I sent it says
“Olive
oil
contains
mostly oleic acid, an
omega-9 fatty acid.
Omega-9 fatty acids
compete with omega-3
fatty acids and decrease
the omega-3 in the blood
and skin.” My wife and I
work at increasing our
intake of omega-3 fatty
acids. We also use olive
oil. I have never heard of
this interference before.
Are we working against
ourselves? — J.H.
ANSWER: Olive oil

has a mixture of many
fatty acids, including oleic
acid, an omega-9 fatty
acid. Olive oil promotes
heart, brain and blood
vessel health. Fish oils
are chiefly omega-3 fatty
acids, and they do provide
great benefits to health.
They lower levels of
triglycerides (fats in the
blood and contributors to
plaque buildup); they provide protection against
heart disease and strokes.
Many of the most recommended diets, including
the Mediterranean diet,
include both olive oil and
fish in their lists of foods
that improve health. Furthermore, many times I
have seen olive oil recommended as one way to
prepare fish for cooking.
As far as I can see, olive
oil and omega-3 fatty
acids are not incompatible.

April 27, 1912
Mr. and Mrs. Wendell
E. Whipp arrived in Sidney yesterday from
Columbus and will
make Sidney their
home. Mr. Whipp will be
the manager of the
Monarch Machine Company.
———
Howard, the fouryear-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Griffith of
North Ohio Avenue,
wandered away from
last
evening
home
about 5:30 o’clock. He
was found near the
Tucker Woodwork plant
about an hour later and
was taken to the fire department. This same
boy was lost Thursday
night, causing considerable excitement on the
northeast corner of the
square. In some manner
he had gotten lost from
his mother.
———
At the adjourned
meeting of city council
last evening, the matter
of street improvement
about the city was discussed to some length.
A proposition is before
the council which is
being urged by many
property owners to narrow certain streets and
have new cement curb
and gutters put in so
that the lawns may be
made on the park plan.
It is proposed that
North Street and Main
Avenue be made 40 feet
wide, while Walnut,
Michigan, Forest and
Grove Streets be 28 feet
wide.

75 Years
April 27, 1937
Chief
of
Police
O’Leary warned local
motorists today that effective tomorrow, the
city ordinance against
double parking will be
rigidly enforced in the
city. All cars found doubled parked will be
towed to a local garage
and the owner required
to pay the tow-in charge.
All cars must also be
parked properly between
the lines and any found
parked on or across the
lines will also be pulled
in.

50 Years
April 27, 1962
Gus Palmisano plastered the maples with
outstanding consistency
during
the
Minor
League round at Bel
Mar Lane on Friday
evening. The Sidney
Daily News employee
chalked up games of
212, 203, and 213 for a
628 series, as the thirdplace Johnson’s Restau-

rant blanked the basement-sitting
Sidney
Sand and Gravel crew,
8-0, with Don Voorhees
getting a 236 for the losers.
———
A crazy, mixed-up
mother bunny became
confused Easter morning and instead of leaving eggs at the Dale
Anspach home, 118
Edgewood Street, left a
litter of six baby bunnies. (Note to adult
readers: The mother
bunny was actually
killed by a dog roaming
the neighborhood).
Mrs. Anspach knew
what to do. Armed with
a medicine dropper she
began to feed the bunnies with warm milk.
Anspach and the son
prepared a box for the
babies, even transplanting furnishings from
the bunny home at the
foot of a tree in their
front
yard.
The
Anspachs plan to release the bunnies to a
farm they have picked
because the owner also
likes bunnies and refuses anyone permission to hunt.

25 Years
April 27, 1987
Bob Sargeant, a Sidney resident vacationing at Marco Island,
Fla., caught a six-foot,
225-pound
Jewfish
about 22 miles southwest of Marco Island in
the Gulf of Mexico recently. John Gariety, a
Summit Street resident,
and his wife Louise
were
fishing
with
when
he
Sargeant
hooked the huge fish in
about 65 feet of water,
using pin fish for bait.
———
Juniors and seniors
at Russia High School
dined,
danced
and
crowned a king and
queen during prom festivities Saturday at the
Russia
Community
Center. The hall was
decorated in keeping
with the selected theme
“Ice Castles.” Debra
Luthman received the
queen’s crown from the
1987 king, David Meyer.
Meyer was crowned by
junior class president
Jeffrey Prenger.

Facebook thank yous no substitute for notes
DEAR ABBY:
yet
prepping
I recently ateveryone to give
tended a baby
her an outpourshower for a dear
ing of support if
high school friend
there is another
and his wife. The
tragic loss.
day after the
Who does this?
shower,
she
I
am
…
posted
a
SPEECHLESS
slideshow
on
IN NORTH CARDear
Facebook titled
OLINA
Abby
“Thanks for All
D E A R
Abigail
Our Gifts” with a
SPEECHLESS:
picture of each Van Buren Most baby showgift and who gave it. She ers are given four to six
has had numerous mis- weeks
before
the
carriages and held this mother’s due date. Howshower at five months, ever, it’s possible that
knowing the baby is not your friend’s wife had
yet at a viable stage.
hers at five months beWhile I feel sympathy cause, with her history of
for her fertility issues, miscarriages, she’s exand especially for her cited that her pregnancy
husband who desperately seems to be progressing
wants to be a father, I well and she’s thinking
think this is a bid for at- positively about the outtention. I am disgusted at come. I hope it works out
how she seems to be well and so should you.
bragging about her haul,
As to her method of

thanking everyone for the
gifts, she may never have
been taught that individual thank-you notes
should have been sent to
each guest. Because it is
clear that you are closer to
the husband than the
wife, perhaps you should
tip him off that it’s still
not too late for them to do
the right thing and suggest he help her with
them.
DEAR ABBY: I have
been divorced from my
wife for almost a year,
with another year of separation preceding that.
We divorced because of
arguments, not because
of abuse, adultery or substance abuse issues. The
divorce actually seemed
to take on a life of its own.
Because I have a small
son with her, I desperately
want to attempt a recon-

ciliation. She is reticent
about it, however, mainly
because I believe she’s
getting pressure from her
family. How can I persuade her to go out with
me so we can rekindle the
spark we once shared? —
MISSING MY OLD LIFE
DEAR MISSING: Before a couple can successfully reconcile, they must
first resolve the problems
that caused the separation in the first place.
That would be the way to
begin. However, are you
aware that not once in
your letter did you say
that you still love your exwife? If the reason you
want to “rekindle the
spark” is that you miss
being with your child and
the comforts of being
married — but not her —
then I don’t think you
have much chance of success.

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ODDS

AND ENDS

NEW YORK (AP) — A
puppy named Byrdie delayed several flights at
New York's LaGuardia
Airport when she escaped from her crate and
frolicked around a busy
runway.
The Port Authority
says
the
30-pound
Rhodesian
ridgeback
scampered around the
runway for about 10 minutes on Wednesday while

authorities unsuccessfully tried to collar her.
The agency says they
had to find the pooch's
owner aboard the Memphis-bound Delta Air
Lines Airbus to help
catch it.
The
owner
was
brought out on to the
runway. She called out to
the 14-month-old pup
and she came running to
her.

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Bengals pick CB
CINCINNATI (AP) — The
Bengals took cornerback Dre
Kirkpatrick
from Alabama
with the 17th
overall pick in
the draft, trying
to fill one of
their two most
glaring needs.
The Bengals
had one of the
best cornerback Kirkpatrick
tandems in the
NFL in Johnathan Joseph
and Leon Hall, but Joseph left
for Houston after the 2010
season and Hall tore an
Achilles tendon last year.
Cincinnati got the pick
from Oakland as part of the
deal for quarterback Carson
Palmer, which didn't turn out
so well for the Raiders, who
failed to reach the playoffs
last season. Cincinnati also
had its own pick, at No. 21, in
the round.
The Bengals also need to

get a receiver to complement
A.J. Green, their top pick last
year who reached made the
Pro Bowl.

Luck, RG3 1-2
NEW YORK (AP) — Six
weeks after saying goodbye to
Peyton Manning, the Indianapolis Colts handed Andrew Luck a blue and white
jersey and the daunting task
of leading a rebuilding team
as its quarterback for the next
decade.
Luck couldn't have chosen a
tougher act to follow — all
Manning did was win an unprecedented four MVP awards
and a Super Bowl for Indy. But
many believe he is the most
NFL-ready passer to enter the
league since Manning went
No. 1 overall in 1998.
“You don't really replace a
guy like that,” Luck said. “You
can't. You just try to do the
best you can. Obviously, he
was my hero growing up.”
His selection as the top pick

was hardly a surprise. The
Colts informed the Stanford
quarterback last week that
Commissioner Roger Goodell
would announce his name first
Thursday night. Right behind
him was Baylor QB Robert
Griffin III, the Heisman Trophy winner, who was taken
second overall by the Washington Redskins. No suspense attached to that pick, either.
After being loudly booed at
the outset, Goodell told a raucous crowd at Radio City
Music Hall that “the season
begins tonight, so let's kick if
off.” Then he did, congratulating Luck while the crowd
chanted “RG3, RG3.”
Luck left the stage and
slapped hands with some fans
in Colts shirts and headed to
the interview room.
To get Griffin, Washington
dealt a second-round pick this
year and its first-rounders in
2013 and '14 to St. Louis to
move up four spots.

AP Photo/Jason DeCrow

ALABAMA RUNNING back Trent Richardson, right, poses for
photographs with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell after
being selected as the third pick overall by the Cleveland
Browns in the first round of the NFL football draft at Radio
City Music Hall Thursday in New York.

Loramie whips Sidney 10-3
Fort Loramie breezed to a
10-3 victory over the Sidney
Lady Jackets in action at Sidney Thursday.
The win puts Loramie at
15-5 on the year and Sidney
drops to 10-11.
Loramie trailed 1-0 after
an inning, but got five in the
second, three in the third and
two in the fourth.
Ashley Ordean had a huge
day at the plate, going 4-for-4
with three doubles and driving in two runs.
Megan Bollheimer had a
home run and Janell Hoying
and Katie Eilerman both doubled.
For Sidney, Rachel Heckaman singled and doubled,
Maddi Homan had two singles and Grace Lochard doubled.

Herron blanks
Botkins 8-0
BOTKINS — Russia ace
Katelyn Herron was perfect
through five innings and
wound up with a one-hitter in
an 8-0 victory over Botkins in
County softball action here
Thursday.
Herron wound up with 11
strikeouts in the game.
Tori Borchers, Herron,
Alexa Counts and Emily
Fairchild all had two hits
each. Fairchild had a double
and Counts drove in three
runs.

is 18-5.
Hanna Floyd, welcomed
back after missing 61/2 games
with an injury, hit two home
runs in four trips and drove in
four runs to lead the Lady
Wildcats.
The linescore:
Minster....................100 400 0_5 7 3
Versailles.................010 003 0_4 5 1
WP: Richard; LP: McEldowney
Records: Minster 18-5, Versailles
7-13.

Lady Cavs fall 4-1
Lehman hosted Lima Perry
Thursday at Flanagan Softball Complex and ran into a
talented pitcher in a 4-1 loss.
Perry’s Trent struck out 13
and did not walk a batter in
getting the win.
For the Lady Cavaliers,
Meghan Bennett singled and
doubled and Andrea Thobe
and Lindsey Spearman both

——

JACKSON

CENTER

—

Minster nips Versailles Houston blanked Jackson
VERSAILLES — Minster
survived Versailles’ three-run
sixth inning to pull out a 5-4
verdict over the Lady Tigers
in Midwest Athletic Conference action.
A loss would have been
costly for Minster, which has
just one in the MAC, putting
them one behind league-leading Parkway. Overall, Minster

Center 9-0 in the third
County game of the night.
For Houston, Ashley Wilson
and Alyssa Stang both doubled and drove in two runs,
and Jade Piatt had three hits
in four trips.
The linescore:
Houston ..................103 410 0_9 8 1
JC ............................000 000 0_0 4 2
WP: Piatt; LP: Himmeger
Records: JC 2-11, Houston 11-7.

BEREA, Ohio (AP) — The
Cleveland Browns weren’t
going to let anyone block them
from Trent Richardson.
Desperate for a playmaker
to ignite a sputtering offense,
the Browns traded three later
picks to the Minnesota Vikings
and moved up one spot to select Richardson, Alabama’s explosive running back, with the
No. 3 overall pick in the NFL
draft on Thursday night.
The dynamic Richardson
should make an immediate
impact on a Cleveland offense
that scored just 218 points
last season and had just four
rushing touchdowns. The 5foot-9, 228-pound Richardson
scored 21 for the national
champion Crimson Tide.
“He’s passionate. He’s productive. He’s durable and he’s
the kind of runner we feel is
going to help us get our offense together to score the
points that we need to win the
games that we’re going to
win,” said Browns coach Pat
Shurmur, who went 4-12 in a
tumultuous first season. “He’s
a terrific runner.”
Shurmur said the Browns
were convinced a team would
leapfrog them to select
Richardson.
“We knew that as we went
through the process that he
was our guy,” Shurmur said.
“We did what we had to do to
secure it. We knew teams behind us wanted him as well.
We’re thrilled.”
Richardson was stunned to
be taken by the Browns.
“I didn’t expect to go this
high,” he said after donning a
Browns No. 1 jersey and baseball cap on the stage of New
York’s Radio City Music Hall.
Richardson seemed destined in most mock drafts to
be going to the Browns at No.
4, but about an hour before
the draft, Cleveland general
manager Tom Heckert pulled
off his trade with Minnesota.
Heckert sent the Vikings
picks in the fourth (No. 118),
fifth (139) and seventh (211)
rounds to move up and select
Richardson, who rushed for
1,679 yards last season.
It was a bold move by
Heckert, who entered the
draft with 13 selections and
planned to use some of them
to move if he really liked a
player. Last year, Heckert
passed up taking Alabama
wide receiver Julio Jones at
No. 6 and acquired extra picks
from the Falcons. He used one
of those ‚Äî No. 118 ‚Äî in the
package for Richardson.
During the offseason, the
Browns fell short in their pursuit for quarterback Robert
Griffin III. Cleveland was outbid by Washington, which selected the Heisman Trophy

winner second overall.
They weren’t about to lose
out on getting the best runner.
“He’s a terrific player and
he’s going to be a really fine addition,” Shurmur said. “He’s
going to be one of those players
who are fans will be able to
watch run the ball for a lot of
years.”
The Browns also have the
No. 22 pick in the first round.
In New York, Richardson
was joined on stage by his two
young daughters.
“To them, this means they
never have to go through what
their daddy went through,”
said Richardson, recalling his
mother worked “two and three
jobs” while battling cancer as
she raised him.
Richardson is viewed as the
most complete back in this
year’s draft and perhaps the
best since Adrian Peterson in
2007.
He can run inside the tackles for tough yards and bust
outside for long gains.
Richardson made a strong impression on the Browns during his pro day at Alabama
when he flattened Cleveland
running backs coach Gary
Brown during a blocking drill.
“I’m pretty sure I got their
attention when I knocked him
down,” Richardson said in a
conference call.
Shurmur said he was certain Richardson should be the
pick long before the 21-yearold’s workout.
Earlier in the day, Browns
Hall of Fame running back
Jim Brown, who has been at
odds with the organization for
several years, called Richardson “ordinary.” However,
Brown’s former team felt differently and selected a player
whom they believe can help
them close the gap on Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Cincinnati in the AFC North.
Richardson said he wasn’t
bothered by Brown’s comment.
“I have a lot to play for,” he
said. “I’ve got a lot to prove.
I’m an ordinary human, but
as a back, I’ll be a special guy.”
Cleveland’s rushing game
was inconsistent last season,
ranking 28th overall. Peyton
Hillis, who rushed for nearly
1,200 yards in 2010, was unreliable and injured. Montario
Hardesty struggled with injuries for the second year in a
row, and third-down specialist
Brandon Jackson missed the
whole season with a foot injury.
When Hillis, who missed
one game with strep throat
and had other off-field issues,
left as a free agent, it left a
gaping hole in Cleveland’s
ground game.
Shurmur feels Richardson
will plug it.

SPORTS
Donoher
resigns
at Fairmont
KETTERING — Former Sidney High School
athletic director Brian
Donoher has submitted
his letter of resignation
as the AD at Kettering
Fairmont High School, it
was reported Thursday.
The school board is
expected to accept his
resignation, which would
take effect this summer.
Donoher had been
charged with soliciting a
prostitute in February
and has since pleaded
guilty to loitering. He
has been on family medical leave since about a
month afer his arrest.
His annual salary at
Fairmont was $101,492.

Riverside
star signs
with ODU

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Reds lose on 9th inning homer
CINCINNATI (AP) —
Angel Pagan made the
Giants’ long trip home a
little easier.
Pagan hit a three-run
homer in the ninth inning Thursday, lifting
the San Francisco Giants to a 6-5 win over
the Cincinnati Reds.
“We were all pumped
when I got back to the
bench,” Pagan said. “We
were thinking about a
happy flight home.”
The Giant avoided a
three-game sweep and
snapped a seven-game
losing streak at Great
American Ball Park.
“It was one of those
games that save your
sanity,” Giants manager
Bruce Bochy said.
Joaquin Arias, who
was called up Wednesday when Aubrey Huff
was placed on the disabled list with an anxiety disorder, led off the
ninth against Cincinnati
closer Sean Marshall (02) with a walk, and Ryan
Theriot followed with a
single. After pinch-hitter
Brett Pill struck out,
Pagan lofted a 1-2 pitch
386 feet into the left field
seats.
Pagan was ready for
the curveball after striking out against Marshall
on the pitch Wednesday
night.
“I knew he was going
to throw it again,” Pagan
said. “I had to make an
adjustment. I swung at
one in the dirt last night.
This one was in the
strike zone.”
“The curveball’s been a
good pitch for me,” said
Marshall, who blew his
first save after converting
four opportunities. “I’ve
gotten some outs with it.
The ball hung in the mid-

DEGRAFF — Riverside High School volleyb a l l
standout
T o r y
Thompson
recently
signed
a
letter of intent to play
at Ohio Dom i n i c a n Thompson
University
next season.
Thompson was a second-team All-Ohio selection last season, and was
also named the District
9 Player of the Year. She
was also first-team AllDistrict 9 as a junior.
As a senior, Thompson recorded 504 kills,
297 digs, 59 blocks and
38 ace serves. Her 7.1
kills per game was first
among all Ohio players
and fourth nationally,
according
to
MaxPreps.com. And her hitting percentage of 59.8
VERSAILLES — Verwas second in Ohio and sailles moved into a tie
fourth in the nation.
for first in the MAC with
a 6-5 victory over
Delphos St. John’s in action Thursday.
The Tigers, now 16-5
overall and 4-1 in the
league, have a big game
up tonight at Minster. It
was Delphos’ first league
loss.
Versailles got a run in
The Lehman boys tennis
team
defeated the first and five in the
Greenville 5-0 in action second despite managing just four hits for the
Wednesday night.
The Cavaliers, now game.
Ethan Bruns deliv10-2 on the season, won
with Pierce Bennett at ered six strong innings
first singles, 6-0, 6-1, and Dominic Richard got
Dan Sehlhorst at second the save by pitching the
singles, 6-0, 6-0, and seventh.
The linescore:
Mitchell Shroyer at third
Delphos.........030 200 0_5 7 3
singles in a dandy Versailles......150 000 x_6 4 0
match, 7-6, 4-6, 7-6.
Records: Versailles 16-5,
At first doubles, Matt Delphos 14-4.
Ulrich and David Frey——
tag won 6-2, 6-3, and at Minster edged 9-7
second doubles, Louis
LIMA — Minster led
Gaier and Riley Pickrel 7-5 going to the last of
won 4-6, 6-0, 6-2.
the seventh, but coudn’t
• On Thursday, the hold off Lima Bath.
Cavaliers beat ChamiThe Wildcats scored
nade 3-2.
four times in the inning
Bennett lost at first to pull out a 9-7 nonsingles 6-4, 6-1, but league win.
Sehlhorst won at second
Minster goes to 16-5
singles, 6-3, 6-1, and and has a big game
Shroyer at third singles,
today at home against
6-0, 6-3.
Versailles.
At first doubles, UlAdam Niemeyer sinrich and Freytag lost 2gled and doubled for
6, 6-3, 6-3, and at second
Minster and Ryan Hoydoubles, Gaier
and
ing had two singles.
Michael Comer won 6-4,
The linescore:
6-4.
Minster........034 000 0_7 8 3
The Cavaliers are Bath.............050 000 4_9 13 1
now 10-4 on the season.
B. Hoying, R. Hoying (6)

AP Photo/David Kohl

CINCINNATI REDS' Drew Stubbs, right, safely
reaches first base for a single in front of San Francisco Giants first baseman Brandon Belt, left, dur-

ing the third inning of a baseball game Thursday in
Cincinnati.

dle of the plate. He didn’t
get a good swing on it.
What hurts is the guys
played so well.”
Javier Lopez (2-0) allowed two hits but no
runs in the eighth to
earn the win. Santiago
Casilla struck out the
side in the ninth for his
second save.
Casilla is replacing
Brian Wilson, who will
miss the rest of the season with an elbow injury.
“You have to throw
strikes. That’s number
one,” Casilla said. “Having six saves last year
helped and I pitched the
ninth inning in the Dominican. When I pitch

streak to 19 games, a
franchise record. He
went into the game tied
with Johnny Rucker,
who hit in the first 18
games of the 1945 season with the then-New
York Giants.
Reds starter Homer
Bailey lasted 6 1-3 innings, allowing seven
hits and three runs —
two earned — with two
walks and six strikeouts.
Giants starter Ryan
Vogelsong gave up seven
hits and four runs with
two walks and five
strikeouts in six innings.
The Reds took a 2-0
lead in the second on
Devin Mesoraco’s sacri-

more I feel better.”
Casilla bailed out a
bullpen that had a rough
series.
“You can’t throw the
ball any better than
Casilla did,” Bochy said.
“Our bullpen has been
struggling this series,
too. We haven’t played
our best baseball yet.”
Jay Bruce hit a tworun home run in the
sixth inning and Scott
Rolen led off the seventh
with his second of the
season, both in the last
two games.
Giants third baseman
Pablo Sandoval went 1
for 5, extending his season-opening
hitting

fice fly and Bailey’s RBI
single. The Giants capitalized on shortstop Zack
Cozart’s error to tie the
score with two runs in
the fourth inning.
Bruce broke the tie
with his fourth homer of
the season, a 381-foot
shot to right-center field
that just cleared the
glove of the leaping
Pagan. The homer was
Bruce’s first since hitting
two against the Miami
Marlins on April 8.
Pinch-hitter Gregor
Blanco came up with a
sacrifice fly to cut
Cincinnati’s lead to 4-3
in the seventh before
Rolen’s 429-foot homer.

V-Tigers move into tie for first

Lehman
netters
win twice

Masur gets
ace at Oaks
Rainer
Masur
recorded his first holein-one on Tuesday at
Shelby Oaks.
He aced the No. 3
south hole, which was
playing 130 yards, and
used a 9-iron.
His playing partners
were Ron Tackett and
Rod Nicols.

Cavs win 15-5
Lehman took advantage of New Bremen
wildness to score a lot of
runs and finish off the
Cardinals in five innings
Thursday at Lehman,
15-5.
The Cavs, now 15-5,
got three hits, including
a triple from Greg
Spearman, three hits

and four RBIs from John
Copella, a double and
two runs from Ben
Weber and two hits from
Joe Vondenheuvel.
Brent Bertke had two
hits for the Cardinals
and Alec Frideger doubled.
“We had a lot of respect for New Bremencoming in, and it was
good to get a win over
them,” said Sidney coach
Dave King. “They gave
us some runs on errors
and walks.”

The Tigers, now 3-9,
got a big game from Joey
Frye. He was 3-for-3
with four RBIs, and also
pitched all five innings
and struck out nine.
Andy Hoying also had
a big game, going 4-for-4
with three runs scored,
three stolen bases and
three RBIs.
Trey Echert added
two hits and scored
three times.
For Houston, Gary
Phipps had two hits and
drove in two.

seventh, and the rest
was pitcher Jared Albers
in a 4-0 win over Riverside in non-league action
Thursday.
The Redskins, 13-7,
got a three-hitter from
Albers.
Offensively,
Joel
Hilgefort singled and
doubled for Loramie.

NK loses 6-3
NEW KNOXVILLE
— New Knoxville too a
34-2 lead to the sixth inning, but Coldwater got
two in each of the last
two frames to pull out a
6-3 win in MAC action
Thursday.
Tyler Shreve had a
double for the Rangers
and Spencer Wolf went
2-for-3.

ANNA — Anna got
back on the winning
track Thursday, shutting
out Fairlawn 7-0 in
County play.
The Rockets go to 6-2
in the County and 9-7
overall. Fairlawn is 6-10.
Anna struck for five
in the bottom of the
first and then rode the
pitching of Wes Showalter, who allowed just
four hits in going the
distance. He struck out
six.
Jake Counts went 3for-3 for the Rockets and
drove in two, Wes
Wolters had two hits and
scored
twice,
Luke
Kindelin scored twice
and Josh Robinson drove
in two runs.
The linescore:
Fairlawn .......000 000 0_0 4 3
Anna .............500 200 x_7 7 1
Caudill (LP), Watkins (6)
and Rogers; Showalter and
Maurer, Wenrick (7).
Records: Anna 9-7, Fairlawn 6-10.

——

JC tops Houston

overall and 6-1 in the
County with a 6-2 victory over Botkins Thursday.
The Raiders started
fast, scoring three times
in the top of the first.
Trevor Sherman and
Treg
Francis
both
walked to start the
game, and Colyn McEldowney doubled both of
them home. Eric Magoto
then singled in McEldowney.
McEldowney had a
full day, with two hits,
and a couple of key plays
behind the plate. He
threw out a runner at
second, and picked another off first.
Sherman added a
triple for the Raiders.
The linescore:
Russia...........310 110 0_6 6 2
Botkins .........002 000 0_2 5 2
Sherman (WP), Counts (3),
Francis (6) and McEldowney;
Miller (LP), VanGundy (7) and
Greve.
Records: Russia 11-4,
Botkins 3-5.

——

Loramie downs
JACKSON CENTER
— Jackson Center beat
Riverside 4-0
Houston 12-2 in five inDEGRAFF — Fort Lonings in County baseball ramie scored a run in the
action Thursday.
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